Henry Anderson and Dave West dig into this, as well as Wes Streeting’s promise to move some of this money into deprived areas – and questioning if this will actually work.

We also cover an update on plans for manager regulation after the government published its proposals earlier this week.

This episode marks the last HSJ podcast before a summer break. 

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