- £250m allocated for replacing dormitory wards in the mental health sector
- Treasury confirms £15bn has been allocated for PPE this year
The Treasury has revealed the NHS has been given over £30bn to fight covid19.
Document’s released after today’s mini-budget reveal the £32bn total includes £10bn for the “Test, Trace, Contain and Enable” programme, £1 billion to procure ventilators and £5.5 billion on other schemes such as the independent sector block booking contract and outpatient discharge.
The document confirmed that £15bn of PPE procurement has been approved, which is broadly in line with the figure HSJ reported last week.
The document’s also set out some brief details of NHS spending pledges in 2020-21, including £250m to eradicate dormitory wards in the mental health sector.
The headline additional investment figure of £1.5bn was first announced by the prime minister last week.
Of that total, documents published by the Treasury today say £250m has been committed to replacing mental health dormitories across 25 mental health providers in England.
Meanwhile, £1.05bn has been allocated for “NHS maintenance and A&E capacity”, with £200m on hospital building programmes.
Additional public sector spending will be revealed in a joint autumn budget and spending review, the chancellor said.
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