Hammond backtracked on funding after 'fury' at NHS boss's demands

Sources say health service would have got more in Budget if NHS England chief executive had not made public demand for extra £4bn

Philip Hammond backtracked on plans to give the NHS more money than it eventually got in the Budget after reacting with “fury” to its boss Simon Stevens’s public demand for an extra £4bn next year.

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