According to NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens, the health service needs more money than the £1.6bn promised by the chancellor to avoid potential consequences of “underfunding”.
The board of NHS England, which runs the health service in England, is meeting on Thursday with one of the key items on the agenda to discuss planning for 2018/19 in light of the budget.
With Stevens saying the NHS needs an increase of £4bn a strong warning about the future of the health service is expected. Stevens said: “we can no longer avoid the difficult debate about what it is possible to deliver for patients with the money available”.
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