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Has Rishi Sunak blocked Boris's NHS recovery plan?

7 February 2022

6:02 AM

7 February 2022

6:02 AM

The Treasury on Saturday prevented an announcement pencilled in for tomorrow of the so-called ‘elective recovery plan’, the multi-billion pound initiative to reduce the NHS’s record backlog of treatments.

Treasury sources insist the plan wasn’t ready and this was a joint decision with the NHS. ‘The NHS wanted to pause too,’ said one.

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