Socialist Outlook

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NHS budget boost

Socialist Outlook no. 33, April 2000 · 222 words

Outlook team, the grim experience of a drubbing at the hands of the the dangers allowing this to happen next winter, in what they have hoped would be the run-up to the Despite Blair's efforts to refocus attention onto other issues, "education, education, the NHS remained preocupation - even in the coming elections for London Mayor.

Clearly E2 billion, on top of the increase already pencilled in for health authorities from April 1, to be followed with around {2 has billion above another three years, is a very substantial something. Few paisacts nao asaca tor as much, and nobody - not even the BMA • had asked for more.

the "Rescue frawn up in 1998 by London Health Emergency called for NHS annual spending to rise by half of one percent of GDP - {4 to billion - abore inflation, a figure which Gordon Brown seems set to exceed.

T he key issue now to be resolved is how the money is to be spent: the LHE Rescue Plan itemised key where investment should be targeted for maximum effect.

• It urged the opening of an extra 5000 beds across the country in a sustained effort to treat period, additional patients and eliminate the waiting list over a 5-year

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