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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS will need extra £38bn a year by 2030, thinktank warns

NHS logo fastened to a wire fence at a hospital
The Health Foundation says Labour and the Conservatives are playing down the true level of investment needed by the health service. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA Archive

The NHS in England will need £38bn more a year than planned by the end of the next parliament in order to cut the care backlog and end long treatment delays, political parties have been warned.

Labour and Conservative promises on NHS funding “fall well short” of what the beleaguered health service needs to recover from years of underinvestment, according to the Health Foundation.

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