UK government set to cut NHS spending in 2017 per head

Plans are being put in place by the UK government to reduce the financial plan for the National Health Service (NHS) per head in real term next year 2018, as ministers have also admitted official figures for the first time.

The Government will cut the National Health Service's financial plan per individual in genuine terms one year from now, priests have conceded in authority figures surprisingly.

Numbers discharged by ministers indicate NHS England will confront a sharp diminishment of 0.6% for every penny in genuine terms of per head in the financil year 2018-19.

The numbers authenticate asserts by NHS boss Simon Stevens prior this month that “in 2018-19, real-terms NHS spending per person in England is going to go down”.

The figures additionally go against the Government's open request that it is putting more in the health sector, with Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May rehashing the mantra of an additional £10bn for the NHS.

That claim was exposed by the cross-party Health Committee in the mid-year, whose seat, Tory MP Sarah Wollaston, said the number was both "incorrect" and “risks giving a false impression that the NHS is awash with cash”.

Thus Liberal Democrats have stated that the figures demonstrate how Tory’s claim of investment were "dangerous" while Labour said the Government ought to utilize the March spending plan to close the dark gap opening up in the health service’s funds.

In a composed articulation to the House of Commons health minister Philip Dunne said NHS England's per capita real terms spending plan would increment by 3.2 for every penny in 2016-17 money related year.

However development would fall pointedly one year from now, down to only a 0.9 for each penny increment in 2017. It would then go negative by 2018-19 with a 0.6 for every penny fall in genuine spending per head in that financial year.

Development would stay low in 2019-20 at 0.2 for each penny and 0.9 for every penny in the years taking after. The more extensive wellbeing spending plan outside the NHS is confronting much more supported cuts, with two years of contracting asset per head and a most extreme development rate of 0.4 for each penny after this year. This incorporates staff preparing and general wellbeing.

Tim Farron, Lib Dem leader, also disclosed to The Independent saying: “These Government figures expose just how disingenuous they have been with their claims that they’re investing more in the NHS.

“It is unbelievable that they keep asking health and care services to provide more services, for more people, with less and less resource. These vital services are already stretched to breaking point.

“We need a long-term funding settlement for health and care. Figures like this show just how essential this initiative is.”

Jon Ashworth, Labour’s shadow Health Secretary, said social care cuts were compounding the health service’s woes.  

Jon Ashworth, Labor's shadow Health Secretary, said social care cuts were aggravating the wellbeing administration's troubles.

“Ministers have now finally admitted what I've been warning for some time – that head for head, NHS spending will actually be cut next year,” he said.

“Alongside cuts to social care this will simply compound the crisis the NHS is already facing. Theresa May needs to use the Budget this March to give the NHS and social care the funding our constituents expect.”