IFS NHS spending analysis: What this govt has done to health services is scandalous

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to IFS analysis revealing that the planned 1.2% real terms cut in day-to-day NHS spending would be the largest reduction since the 1970s, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney MP said:

"What this Conservative government is doing to our NHS is nothing short of scandalous. They have left health services shockingly underfunded and it is patients who are bearing the brunt of their neglect.

"The Chancellor must cancel these planned spending cuts to the NHS at the budget. To push ahead with them would show that this Conservative government does not understand the crisis that local health services are in and the unnecessary suffering they are putting patients through.

"The neglect of our NHS is holding back economic growth. Millions of people who want to work can't as they simply cannot access the treatment they deserve. To fix our economy we must first fix our NHS."  

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

The IFS analysis can be found here.