Health spending
Fact checks about increases and decreases in funding of the NHS, including the number of hospitals being built and record levels of funding
Health spending isn’t set to account for almost half of all taxes
Figures quoted by LBC presenter Nick Ferrari didn’t take account of the total amount of public spending.
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Health doesn’t account for 40% of day-to-day public spending
Health accounts for around 20% of day-to-day public spending, not 40%.
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Boris Johnson promised to publish his Dyson communications—we’re still waiting on “all the details”
The Prime Minister originally said he would share ‘all the details’ with the House of Commons and ‘communications’ would be published.
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Clearing up the NHS pay debate
Parliament made a commitment to raise the total NHS budget, but did not specify how that money should be spent.
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Has the NHS had its budget reduced by £30 billion?
Labour claims that the Budget took £30bn out of day to day health spending, this is true if you include the withdrawal of last year’s Covid money.
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State spending isn’t at a record high when you consider the size of the economy
Public spending amounts to around 40% of the size of the economy. It’s been smaller before. It’s also been bigger before.
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The £20.5 billion NHS England spending increase is the largest five year increase since the mid-2000s
NHS England spending is set to increase by £20.5 billion between 2018/19 and 2023/24. The last time spending increased by at least that amount was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.
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The government has given six hospitals money to upgrade buildings
Another 21 hospital trusts were given money to plan for new buildings, but not to actually begin construction.
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Money for the NHS: is it new or not?
It all depends on what you mean by new. But the £1 billion was money that had already been promised to hospitals but which they were unable to spend previously.
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Was a record amount spent on private providers by the Department of Health?
£9.2 billion was spent on purchasing health care from private providers in 2018/19—a record amount in cash terms, but not in real terms or as a proportion of the department’s …
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