NHS will need extra £38bn a year by 2030, thinktank warns

Health Foundation finds current spending plans insufficient and says difficult trade-offs are inevitable

The NHS will need 38bn more a year than planned by the end of the next parliament in order to cut the care backlog and end long treatment delays, political parties have been warned.

Labour and Conservative promises on NHS funding fall well short" of what the beleaguered health service needs to recover from years of underinvestment, according to the Health Foundation.