Autumn Budget 2017: a step back from the precipice for the NHS? Wednesday’s Budget felt like one of the most eagerly awaited in years. With a government still reeling from a disappointing election result and embroiled in painstaking Brexit negotiations the stakes were high. A good budget might restore some hope and optimism, an unpopular one would heap further pressure on a government in need of a lift.
Judging by the Chancellor’s joke-filled start you could be forgiven for thinking that the outlook was going to be rosy. Sadly, predictions of flatlining productivity and slowing GDP growth started to pervade his speech. The mood changed faster than you could say ‘fit for the future’.
But with such doomsdayish forecasts, what would this all mean for health and social care? The Health Foundation
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Judging by the Chancellor’s joke-filled start you could be forgiven for thinking that the outlook was going to be rosy. Sadly, predictions of flatlining productivity and slowing GDP growth started to pervade his speech. The mood changed faster than you could say ‘fit for the future’.
But with such doomsdayish forecasts, what would this all mean for health and social care? The Health Foundation
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