Johnson’s $47 Billion NHS Plan Resisted by Treasury: Times
- Cabinet and Treasury in deadlock over NHS funding boost
- U.K. preparing tax hikes to pay for healthcare reforms
South Central Ambulance Services move an elderly patient from hospital to a care home near Portsmouth.
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to reform health and social care by handing 34 billion pounds ($47 billion) to the National Health Service faces resistance from the Treasury, the Sunday Times reported.
Johnson’s cash boost is designed to kick-start a period of policy reforms, including a plan to cap the amount that people have to pay for their care at about 80,000 pounds. But the plans were stalled after the Treasury resisted calls for the extra funding, the newspaper said.