Open AccessChallenging the NHS Long Term Plan
Author(s) -
Kailash Chand
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sushruta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2732-5164
pISSN - 2732-5156
DOI - 10.38192/12.1.6
Subject(s) - austerity , plan (archaeology) , term (time) , foundation (evidence) , health plan , public administration , service (business) , political science , atonement , social care , business , health care , medicine , history , law , politics , nursing , marketing , philosophy , physics , theology , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The NHS long-term plan, announced early this year with £20.5bn of funding, was seen as atonement by Theresa May for the health service being starved of funding for the past nine years. But the extra funding will barely make up for nine years of austerity that have crippled the NHS and social care and undermined public health. The Health Foundation think- tank rightly warned that ministers must spend an extra £8bn a year on health, on top of the £20.5bn increase, or the plan will fail.