article_snippet.sent: David Cameron and Nick Clegg have pledged to find the cash – but Ed Miliband has refused.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking this morning, Sir David said: ‘That £8billion needs to be available and all of all the main political parties but Labour have signed up.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David said once NHS NHS knew what its budget was going to be NHS could start tackling the growing black hole in NHS finances.
article_snippet.sent: But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: 'That’s why we have committed to finding at least an extra £8billion a year by 2020.
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt added: 'Labour must explain why Labour won't find the money NHS says NHS needs.'
article_snippet.sent: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: 'NHS does need more money.
article_snippet.sent: Now, NHS’s David Nicholson’s successor, as it happens, Simon Stevens identified this number: £8billion by the end of the next Parliament. '
article_snippet.sent: Simon Stevens and David Nicholson are quite right to expect political parties to explain how He and David Nicholson’re going to come up with the money the NHS says it needs.'
article_snippet.sent: Sir David accused politicians of ignoring a black hole in the NHS budget to boost politicians election chances.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David NHS said that politicians were talking about spending more money rather than addressing existing funding gaps.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David Nicholson told the BBC: ''I have not heard in most of the conversations politicians are having at the moment about what politicians're going to do about that financial hole. '
article_snippet.sent: politicians want to talk about extra services and extra investment when actually there is a problem there to face.'
article_snippet.sent: Sir David told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'What the public is being told at the moment is that 'we'll give you a bit of extra money and everything will be fine' and that actually these managers can deliver £22 billion and then everything will be fine. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Sir David Nicholson called on Labour to commit to spending extra on NHS .
  