Reeves to Boost UK Health Service Funding Amid Sweeping Reform

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will set aside billions of pounds for the National Health Service in her budget next week as the institution embarks on a sweeping program of reform.

Unnamed government sources told The Times newspaper that Reeves plans to announce real increases to the NHS daily budget this tax year and next, although the detailed allocations have not yet been agreed. The Treasury did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

The funding talks come as Health Secretary Wes Streeting will on Monday call on the public, doctors and experts to submit ideas for the future of the NHS, in which he vowed it would be the “most There will be a “big national conversation”. In 1948.

Britain’s aging population and the COVID-19 pandemic have put the NHS under enormous strain, increasing backlogs and adversely affecting the health of many patients. While Reeves is under pressure to deliver enough financial support to the NHS to meet Labour’s manifesto promise of opening 40,000 extra appointments and operations a week, she is also working under tight financial constraints as she looks to keep Britain’s books on the books. Trying to raise up to £40 billion to balance it. ,

In a statement announcing his plans for healthcare reform, Streeting – who confirmed he had reached an agreement with the Chancellor on NHS funding in the upcoming budget – said “investment alone” would be the biggest challenge facing the NHS. Will not be enough to deal with the problems.

“We need to change it to save the things we love about the NHS,” he said. “Our 10-year health plan will transform the NHS to make it fit for the future, and it will have the fingerprints of patients and staff on it.”

Speaking to GB News on Sunday, he said Reeves’ budget would focus on “investment in things like capital and technology so we can make the system more efficient”.

Streeting has already outlined plans to create new neighborhood health centers to ease the burden on hospitals, digitize patient records, update IT systems across the NHS and introduce new wearable devices such as smartwatches So that patients can monitor their health.

Reeves has been considering a series of tax rises in recent months as she prepares to deliver a high-risk budget that could reassure investors and voters, as well as her fellow Labor Party cabinet ministers, that Britain is a Has stabilized after a difficult period. The country went through four Tory prime ministers in five years.

After Labor swept to power in a dramatic defeat to the Conservatives in July’s general election, the Chancellor claimed his Tory predecessors had left a £20bn black hole in the public purse.

Among other measures, she is considering raising taxes on entrepreneurs selling their businesses, reforming the inheritance tax and increasing the income tax threshold, according to people familiar with her plans.

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