Chancellor's 3.8bn cash injection for the NHS comes at a price

Chancellor's 3.8bn cash injection for the NHS comes at a price NHS’s burden could ultimately worsen as budget for recruitment, training health professionals and health bodies is cut by 25% under spending review

The chancellor has done a lot to burnish the Conservative party’s standing on the NHS. He has given the health service an extra £3.8bn for 2016-17 – which is most of the additional cash that its boss had been seeking – and earmarked £600m of the money to fund overdue improvements in mental health care, such as for new mothers and those in crisis.

“As [NHS England chief executive] Simon Stevens said, ‘The NHS has been heard and actively supported,’” George Osborne said after the announcement. Continue reading... The Guardian

See also:

• Press release: Department of Health's settlement at the Spending Review 2015 Department of Health
• Professor Ian Cumming statement on Spending Review Health Education England
• The King's Fund's response to the Spending Review The King's Fund
• Autumn Budget and Spending Review NHS Employers
• The spending review Nuffield Trust
• NHS England spending review uplift at expense of other health services, economists warn GP Online
• Spending review 'falls short' for general practice, warns top London GP GP Online
• NHS settlement may not be enough for seven-day service, experts warn The Guardian
• 'We need more hospital beds, not more A&E staff' The Guardian
• George Osborne's lack of ideas means care homes face meltdown, warn industry chiefs The Guardian
• Autumn Statement: Plans to force nurses to pay tuition fees will saddle future generations with even more debt The Independent