Stop scrimping, Theresa May – or the NHS’s 70th birthday will be its last | Polly Toynbee

The NHS needs £2000 more per household to survive. But as long as they’re ahead in the polls, the Tories don’t seem to careThis is it. The bailiffs are at the door waving the red-ink bill. Pay up or else. For eight years the government has stuck the NHS bill behind the clock but now the crunch has come. Will July’s NHS 70th birthday be a celebration or a funeral? The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), grand truth-teller of fiscal facts, alongside the Health Foundation, a