NHS: reforms and cuts

The claim “We are using PFI to ensure value for money and that the public interest and public services are properly protected when we increase public investment.” Gordon Brown, The Times, September 26, 2002

“There is no cut in the National Health Service – we’re actually putting £10.6bn extra into the NHS during this parliament.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, 2 February 2011

The claim “Health inequalities in 21st century Britain are as wide as they were in Victorian times” Prime Minister David Cameron, speech on modern public service, January 17, 2011

Labour accuses the government of breaking its promise to increase spending on the health service in real terms. Are they right?

FactCheck analyses Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s commitment to “cut the deficit, not the NHS”.

CutsCheck looks at the cuts being made by NHS trusts, despite the government’s pledge to increase health service spending in real terms every year

The Conservative Party claims it can pay for all cancer drugs on the NHS from the money it “saves” by not implementing the National Insurance rise.

FactCheck anayses Gordon Brown’s claim to make savings through providing more NHS cancer care in the community.