Main content

NHS 'can't cope with scale of funding gap'

The NHS faces a 拢30bn funding gap - with another 拢5bn for social care - by 2020, says a former health minister who claimed the "system can't cope with that scale of funding gap".

Speaking from the Lib Dem conference, Norman Lamb said there were "real consequences for real people on this".

He told told Jo Coburn that most people were prepared "to pay enough to make sure it is sustained and that is what I am saying is necessary to happen now."

They also spoke about Addenbrooke's Hospital being put into special measures.

Release date:

Duration:

9 minutes

This clip is from