Health Service Spending

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 21 October 2025.

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Photo of Karin Smyth Karin Smyth Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

As he often does, the hon. Gentleman highlights in his own very rural Constituency some of the fundamental problems at the heart of our NHS. That is why we are reforming it, ensuring that we move hospital services from hospitals into the community and developing neighbourhood health services. We are also looking at the financial flows in the system that lead to these sorts of perverse incentives and funding arrangements, which do damage to his constituents, as they do to many others and to rural and coastal communities. That is why we highlighted that in the 10-year plan. We need to see the end of such examples.

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