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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Caitlin Doherty

NHS would be more worried about resilience than funding in the event of pandemic

The NHS would not be as concerned about finances as they would resilience and ability to cope in the event of another pandemic, according to the service’s boss (Victoria Jones/PA) - (PA Archive)

The NHS would be worried less about money in the event of another pandemic, but rather their “resilience” and “capacity” to deal with it, the service’s boss in England has told MPs.

Amanda Pritchard, the chief executive of NHS England told the Public Accounts Committee that issues such as “the state of the estate” and pressures on intensive care and the workforce remain now as they did before Covid, telling the committee that concerns would “probably would be less about funding”.

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