Covid-19: Budget has failed to provide recovery funding for NHS, health leaders warn
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Health leaders have criticised the “striking absence” of any plan for long term recovery health and social care services in government’s latest budget.1 In his annual budget statement on 3 March, UK chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged an extra £1.65bn (€1.9bn; $2.3bn) to support continued rollout covid-19 vaccination programme, top £55bn covid public 2021-22 that was announced last spending review 2020. For biosciences, government said it investing £5m £9m funding help create a “library” mRNA vaccines variants possible rapid response deployment £28m boost UK’s vaccine testing capacity. In addition, providing £22m new expanded studies. But although welcomed …
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0959-8138']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n633