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<p>We know there are challenges ahead across the health and care sectors, but the
principle with which we will approach the decisions ahead will be to prioritise and
maximise funding for frontline services. The Government believes that the answer to
these challenges lies in changing the way services are delivered and keeping people
well and independent for longer, not in altering the fundamental principles that underpin
the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the Spending Review, NHS
funding will be £10 billion higher in real terms by 2020-21 than 2014-15. And the
NHS will not have to wait until the end of the parliament for much of this investment.
We will be giving the NHS £3.8 billion more next year, over and above inflation, and
almost £6 billion of the £10 billion in the first two years of the six year period.
This shows that the Government has listened and responded to what the NHS has said
about the level of investment it needs to deliver the Five Year Forward View.</p><p>
</p><p>The Five Year Forward View – the NHS’s own plan – takes account of rising demand
from demographic change and sets out new models of care that can meet the changing
needs of patients, including better meeting the needs of the frail elderly, and maximising
the opportunities presented by new technologies and treatments. The aim of the new
care models programme is to secure the future of the NHS for all of us to continue
receiving high quality care, when and where we need it.</p>
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