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NHS funding faces ‘permanent winter’ under the Tories

THE NHS faces a “permanent winter” in funding, health workers warned yesterday.

Speaking to delegates at Unison’s annual conference in Brighton, national executive committee member Jenny Forbes said: “Crisis is the only way to describe what the NHS and our social care services are going through.

“We are facing a permanent winter in our NHS funding.”

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