Simon Stevens, CEO of Vote Leave, has used the controversial £350m-per-week promise by the NHS England campaign to put forward the case for more funding, at the NHS Providers' annual conference. He warned that with current funding projections a hospital waiting list of five million by 2021 was likely. Although he wasn't demanding the exact NHS England figure, he used the promise to frame his proposal. The public appetite for NHS funding could pressure the government into allocating more public money to the service. He even addressed the damaged trust in politics should the promise not be fulfilled.
Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England, has used the controversial £350m-per-week promise by the Vote Leave campaign to put forward the case for more funding, at the NHS Providers' annual conference. He warned that with current funding projections a hospital waiting list of five million by 2021 was likely. Although he wasn't demanding the exact Vote Leave figure, he used the promise to frame his proposal. The public appetite for NHS funding could pressure the government into allocating more public money to the service. He even addressed the damaged trust in politics should the promise not be fulfilled.