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Healthcare: Spending

Lord Davies of Oldham Excerpts
Tuesday 4th April 2017

(7 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait Lord O'Shaughnessy
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The noble Lord is quite right: we need to move from an NHS that deals with illness to one that promotes healthcare, and preventive healthcare is a huge part of that. We are providing over £16 billion of public health funding for local authorities to do that over the period of the spending review. Of course, I shall be delighted to meet any Peers and MPs who want to talk about that further.

Lord Davies of Oldham Portrait Lord Davies of Oldham (Lab)
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What is the Minister’s response to the fact that we have seen the largest sustained reduction in spending as a percentage of GDP in the history of the NHS? Does not that explain why the NHS system is in crisis?

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