We welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement of an additional £20.5 billion a year for the NHS.
Theresa May outlined the development of a 10-year plan for the future of the health service, which will see the NHS budget increase by £20.5 billion in real terms by 2023-24, or £394m per week. This is a 3.4% average annual increase compared to Mr Corbyn’s plan to only give 2.2%.
NHS leaders will produce this plan, supported by local health and care systems across the country.
Some of the extra funding will come from money we no longer give to the European Union, and taxpayers will be asked to contribute a bit more for the NHS in a fair and balanced way.
This additional £20.5 billion will benefit services up and down the country, including Ipswich Hospital (pictured)
With government borrowing at an 11-year low for 2017-18 at £39.5b, it is only the Conservatives who can be trusted to deliver efficient public services across the whole country and deliver a successful exit from the EU. In the meantime, the Labour MP for Ipswich, has been consistently voting against the will of the people of Ipswich by trying to delay and block the EU Withdrawal Bill.