A cross-party solution to NHS pressures? Just before Easter, Theresa May announced she had finally accepted the case for a longer-term, and bigger financial commitment to the NHS.
But how much to pay, and how to find the money is not yet decided.
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has appealed to his colleagues for ideas, promising in a letter to all Tory MPs that solutions for the NHS and proposals on social care will be settled by the summer.
But a cross-party group of MPs including former ministers, is again urging the government to convert National Insurance into a specific tax for the NHS.
That proposal is part of a wider set of principles upon which they would base a commission to look at the health service's long-term pressures, that is being published today. BBC News
But how much to pay, and how to find the money is not yet decided.
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has appealed to his colleagues for ideas, promising in a letter to all Tory MPs that solutions for the NHS and proposals on social care will be settled by the summer.
But a cross-party group of MPs including former ministers, is again urging the government to convert National Insurance into a specific tax for the NHS.
That proposal is part of a wider set of principles upon which they would base a commission to look at the health service's long-term pressures, that is being published today. BBC News
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