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| George Osborne to pledge extra £2bn for NHS | George Osborne to pledge extra £2bn for NHS |
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| Chancellor George Osborne is to announce an extra £2bn for the health service across the UK next year. | Chancellor George Osborne is to announce an extra £2bn for the health service across the UK next year. |
| Mr Osborne will use his Autumn Statement on Wednesday to announce the extra funding for frontline services. | |
| The government can pay for it because of the "growing" economy and its "tight control" of finances, he will say. | The government can pay for it because of the "growing" economy and its "tight control" of finances, he will say. |
| The pledge comes after NHS bosses warned of a need for extra funds to keep the NHS going and maintain standards of care. | The pledge comes after NHS bosses warned of a need for extra funds to keep the NHS going and maintain standards of care. |
| Groups representing health trusts and analysts had said £2bn extra was needed to cope with the immediate, unprecedented pressure on NHS budgets. | |
| 'Strong NHS' | |
| Mr Osborne is to say the extra money will be invested in frontline services, to support the day-to-day work of nurses, doctors and other NHS staff. | |
| It will also be used to buy new facilities and make the health service more efficient, he is to say. | |
| The detail of how the chancellor will pay for it will be given in the statement, which is his update on tax and spending plans based on the latest predictions for the economy. | |
| BBC political correspondent Carole Walker understands some of the funds will come from underspending in other departmental budgets. | |
| The chancellor will say on Wednesday that it is "a simple truth" that "you can't have a strong NHS without a strong economy to pay for it". | |
| Last week the King's Fund health think tank called for the NHS in England to be given £2bn more next year. | |
| BBC health editor Hugh Pym said at the time that, as far as NHS England chiefs were concerned, a £2bn injection next year was the minimum needed to keep the service going without cuts to staffing and lower quality care. | |
| The Liberal Democrats had called for an extra £1.5bn in funding. | |
| Labour had called for an extra £1bn next year, paid for by banking industry fines. It had also said that it would add £2.5bn per year to the NHS budget over the course of the next parliament, should it gain power at the next election. This would be part-funded by its proposed mansion tax. |