Health Secretary Wes Streeting warns the new funding may not prevent avoidable deaths this winter.
The budget will deliver billions of pounds of new funding for the NHS to unlock two million extra appointments a year, the government has announced. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is expected to unveil £1.5bn for new surgical hubs and scanners alongside £70m for radiotherapy machines. An additional £1.8bn will also be put towards elective appointments since July.
'There will still be real problems this winter, but we're not going to deny the scale of the problems, and we are already supporting system leaders, particularly in places that tend to have the most challenge at winter, to try and minimise the risk this winter.' The chancellor highlighted the fact staff at the hospital were using equipment purchased under the last Labour government which should have been replaced.
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