Jan 11, 2017
NHS England chief contradicts May over spending
The chief executive of NHS England has contradicted government claims that the health service is getting more funding than it asked for. Ministers said NHS England had asked for £8bn and been allocated £10bn. But Mr Stevens told MPs that was to cover six years rather than the five-year plan he had put forward. Over the next three years funding is going to be highly constrained and in 2018-19, as I've previously said in October, real-terms NHS spending per person in England is going to go down, 10 years after Lehman Brothers and austerity began. She said claims from the Red Cross of a "Humanitarian crisis" in the NHS were "Irresponsible and overblown" - the only way the NHS could be funded was with a strong economy. A Department of Health spokesman said the NHS in England had 3,100 more nurses and 1,600 more doctors than a year ago.
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