May poised to boost NHS budget by up to £6bn a year

May poised to boost NHS budget by up to £6bn a year Theresa May is poised to increase the NHS’s budget by up to £6bn a year in a bid to capitalise on its impending 70th birthday and rescue the beleaguered service’s faltering fortunes.
The prime minister will scrap the eight-year-long policy of limiting the NHSto funding rises of only 1% and, in a dramatic shift, hand it increases of between 3% and 4% for the next few years.
The official announcement of a move that could see the NHS’s budget go up by around £20bn by the end of this parliament is expected within days. May is preparing to confirm the news herself, possibly through a television interview on Sunday, or at an event on Monday. The Guardian