article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to give NHS chiefs 'whatever they need' after the previous election – which he said was directly contributing to the A&E crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday claimed a Conservative government would find whatever money the health service said was required to cope with the growing pressure on hospitals and GP surgeries.
article_snippet.sent: NHS chief executive Simon Stevens has said the health service needs an extra £8billion a year by 2020 just to keep standards as the health service are.
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: 'We will back NHS's own plan in full ...
article_snippet.sent: We will give whatever they need, it might be more than £8billion, it might be less.'
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt added: 'The next Conservative Government will deliver a truly seven-day NHS, putting right a problem which began with Labour's disastrous 2004 GP contract.'
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt added that far from cutting funding, the Tories would give a truly seven-day NHSwhatever a truly seven-day NHS needs' if the party wins the election.