May, heeding voter concerns, signals higher health spending

British Prime Minister Theresa May held out the prospect of a new approach to public health spending on Tuesday, a latest sign that she wants to head off concerns among voters about strains in the National Health System (NHS).May said she wanted her government to come up with a long-term plan for health spending which should come sooner than a planned broad review of public spending next year.The Sunday Times newspaper reported at the weekend that the government could spend up to 4 billion pound