The plan to tackle the NHS's massive backlog is said to have been delayed after the Treasury blocked it
The Government, which has already committed more than £5bn to help the NHS deal with coronavirus, said it wants value for taxpayers' money and "any delay is a working through of final details".A service that will allow patients to use the NHS website to see waiting time information is due to go live despite the delay to the recovery package, it was announced.
The reported rift with the Treasury comes at a time when Chancellor Rishi Sunak's ambitions come under the spotlight.He is viewed as one of the frontrunners to succeed the embattled Prime Minister should he be forced from office over the partygate saga, which is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.Matthew Taylor, the CEO of NHS Confederation, an organisation that represents groups providing NHS services, took aim at Mr Sunak on Twitter.
Increasingly getting the sense that Johnson now faces the same challenge TB had in his third term. Namely that HMT is loath to agree to any No 10 plans involving money as the ChX sees these as opportunistic and wasted on a dying administration…."Namely that [the Treasury] is loath to agree to any No 10 plans involving money as the [Chancellor] sees these as opportunistic and wasted on a dying administration….
Among the five to have walked in recent days are Munira Mirza, his head of policy who has been working for him for more than a decade.
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