NHS funding to increase by 3% a year in real terms - Reeves

 NHS funding to increase by 3% a year in real terms - Reeves

Reeves says she is proud to announce the government is making a "record" cash investment in our NHS "increasing real-terms, day-to-day spending by 3% per year for every year of this Spending Review".

"An extra £29bn per year for the day-to-day running of the health service," Reeves continues.

Reeves now turns to the NHS, which she describes as "our most treasured public service".

She says the UK must have a publicly funded health service, free at the point of use, rather than an insurance-based model.

The chancellor says the government has, in less than a year, recruited 1,700 more GPs, delivered 3.5 million more appointments, and cut waiting lists by more than 200,000.

Reeves then announces she is "increasing the NHS technology budget by almost 50%", with £10bn of investment to "bring our analogue health system into the digital age, including through the NHS app".

Reeves again brings up Reform UK, attacking the party's leader Nigel Farage for "playing the 'friend of the workers' now".

"But some of us are old enough to remember when he described that disastrous Liz Truss budget as, and I quote, 'the best Conservative Budget since the 1980s'," the chancellor says.

"They are simply not serious."