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Watch my speech on boosting NHS capital investment

  • Mar 6
  • 1 min read

๐”๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐“๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐‡๐’โ€™๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ค๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ -๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐  ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ.


Over ยฃ4bn disappeared from the NHSโ€™s capital budget in the five years up to 2019 to cover deficits in day-to-day spending.


๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐, ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ยฃ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ๐›๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐‡๐’.


Instead, buildings have decayed, diagnostics fell behind, and as I pointed out in a recent debate, clinical equipment and technology needed to deliver high-quality care has aged.



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