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Increase NHS frontline spending by at least 20% (or £2.5bn)
Last updated 3 years ago
SNP Manifesto 2021, p.23We will implement an NHS Recovery Plan, backed by a 20% increase in investment in frontline health services. This will deliver an above inflation increase in NHS spending over the next Parliament of at least £2.5 billion…
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This pledge is in progress. In September 2021, the Scottish Government announced that the 2021/2022 Programme for Government would contain the first rise in frontline NHS spending, a series of which will increase spending by 20% over the course of the Parliament.
“Record investment to transform Scotland’s NHS” (Scottish Government, 5th September 2021)