Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ NHS has sufficient funding to cope with winter crisis

Rishi Sunak is “confident” the government has provided enough funds to the National Health Service to deal with the situation. with ongoing winter crisis, Downing Street said amid calls for ministers do more to help the health service remains afloat.

Mark Harper, Transportation Secretary, said this morning that the government already made “significant” additional resources available in the NHS last November autumn announcement.

Asked if Mr Sunak thought the NHS was getting enough resources, a spokesman for the prime minister said: “I think we are confident that we are providing the NHS with necessary funding, as we did during the pandemic, to cope with with these problems.

“I think we were up front with in public a long in promote of this winter because of the pandemic and the pressure it has put on and the backlog of cases that it will be an extremely difficult winter, and this is what we see, and we remain grateful to NHS frontline and support staff who provide this level of take care of public in difficult time.”

Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor announced in an autumn announcement that the NHS would receive an additional £3.3bn. in each of in next two years as an adult social care will receive additional funding of £1 billion next year and £1.7 billion year after.

More than a dozen NHS trusts and ambulance services claimed critical incidents over holiday period and also it was claimed that somewhere between 300 and 500 people are dying like every week result of delays and problems with emergency and urgent care.

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