NHS Funding

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 12 January 2010.

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Photo of Andrew Lansley Andrew Lansley Shadow Secretary of State for Health 2:30, 12 January 2010

He still doesn't get it, does he? Will he explain why the local PCT in his constituency presently spends £39 a head on its management costs but just £31 a head on its healthy individuals programme, which is preventive spend. That is the point; this is about prevention. What is needed is higher public health budgets for the areas with the poorest health: less bureaucracy, more prevention-that is our health premium. Will he not just accept that we need real help to reduce health inequalities through preventive health care-because we can't go on like this?