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» Thursday, December 16, 2010

Health funding

Asked if the PMS was aware of an NAO report that would show that efficiency in the NHS had slowed every year for the last ten years and would the Government seek further efficiency savings in the light of that, the PMS replied that the reforms that we set out yesterday were there to ensure that the NHS was run more efficiently.

The PMS said that the Government was sticking to the commitment in the Coalition Agreement that said there would be real term increases in every year of this Parliament. We had also said that the NHS would need to become more efficient as the financial environment meant we would not be able to give it 5% real increases each year, which had regularly been the case in the past.

On whether there was a firm commitment on real term increases, the PMS said that this had been covered yesterday afternoon. The position set out in the Coalition Agreement which stated that Health spending would increase in real terms in each year of the Parliament.

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