NHS: Working Hours
(asked on 21st July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to increase the budget of the NHS to meet the cost of making the NHS a full seven days a week service.
This question was answered on 9th September 2015
The NHS Five Year Forward View committed to ensuring that hospital patients will have access to seven day services where this makes a clinical difference to outcomes. We will back the NHS Five Year Forward View and increase National Health Service funding by £10 billion per annum, above inflation, by 2020-21. This is a real terms funding increase of £8 billion, in addition to the £2 billion for 2015-16 announced at Autumn Statement 2014.