NHS facing huge shortfall without Treasury injection

The NHS risks ending up with billions of pounds less than anticipated from the government’s flagship funding pledge unless it can secure a further cash injection from the Treasury, it has emerged.Theresa May announced in the summer that funds for NHS England would be boosted by £20.5bn by 2023-24, in an intervention designed to calm concerns about the pressures on the service and to improve cancer and mental health services.This has added to the problems for Philip Hammond, the chanc