The chancellor has unveiled his spending plans for 2020-21, heralding extra money for the NHS and care services. What difference will it make?
£6.2bn extra for the NHS and £1.5bn for social careThe £6.2bn refers to the extra cash the front line of the NHS will receive next year as part of the five-year settlement announced a year ago by then Prime Minister Theresa May. And it takes the total available to NHS England, to pay for services from hospital care to GP practices and ambulance crews, to nearly £130bn.
The extra money is welcome but still leaves the NHS playing catch up, with waiting lists growing and a huge backlog in buildings maintenance, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research. So if two-thirds of the extra £1.5bn goes on adult services, that would represent a 5% increase in funding. That is pretty significant but then the demands being placed on care services are pretty significant too.
In theory, other spending priorities may mean care spending will not go up by quite as much as £1.5bn - although, that seems unlikely given the rest of the funding councils receive, for all services, is going up by £2bn to nearly £50bn, according to the Treasury.
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