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"Spending on health alone will account for 22.5 per cent of the total increase in spending between 2011-12 and 2014-15"

(Not just a crash diet. Reform publication 12 March 2013)

The Budget comes up this week and for this and the next few budgets the best news for any domestic public spending department will be for the health service. As today’s blog headline suggests, health will have grabbed nearly a quarter of all the increase in spending over that time period.

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