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The NHS is ring fenced from the cost saving measures. So yeah, please go on ;)

• anon1385 11y ago
  Social care isn't part of the NHS budget, it's delivered through local authorities who are facing massive cuts.
• DanBC 11y ago
  Do you really believe that, or are you trolling? The NHS needs increased funding to stay where it is. And that's not including new things like 7 day working ("Do what you're doing now, but do it better, and do it over 7 days a week, and do it for the same money"). And the NHS is clearly seeing budget cuts - Hunt has gone back on his "everything they need" pre-election pledge. (The two year pay freeze and junior doctors leaving in their thousands are clearest evidence, but the gaps in provision for children with mental illness (some children are sent out of the country to get treatment (and not exotic treatment) which isn't something that happens anywhere else in health). We now have NHS England suggesting that staffing levels should be "proportionately safe", while also seeing CQC give damning reports because of unsafe levels of staffing.