The Budget’s tax hikes and borrowing increases may not be enough to undo “14 years of damage” to the NHS, Rachel Reeves warned. The Chancellor is expected to pump billions of pounds into the health service, including £1.5 billion for new surgical hubs and scanners and £70 million for radiotherapy machines. Speaking at St George’s Hospital in south London, she said staff were using equipment purchased under the last Labour government which should have been replaced. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:08I'm at St George's Hospital in South London today to announce some of the investment we're
00:14going to be making in our NHS, the budget on Wednesday, to deliver on the 40,000 additional
00:21appointments every single week in our health service to reduce those waiting times and
00:25waiting lists.
00:27And alongside that, the biggest capital budget since 2010 in our National Health Service
00:32to invest in the new scanners, the diagnostic equipment, the radiography equipment that
00:37our NHS desperately needs alongside the reform to get better productivity and better outcomes
00:44for patients.