Soon after the election, the new government allocated £1.8bn to cover work by hospitals in England to reduce waiting lists for planned treatment and appointments.
That was new money from the Treasury.
The chancellor has said more funding will be provided to help the NHS deliver the extra 40,000 appointments and procedures per week, promised in the Labour manifesto.
There will also be an extra £1.57bn of capital investment – that is spending on equipment and buildings – that will come through in the next financial year.
The Treasury has not yet published the overall spending numbers for the NHS in England and the Department of Health and Social Care for this year and next – that will come in the Budget.
Only then will it be possible to judge how these spending figures compare with the previous trend, which saw average annual real increases of 3% in recent decades.
Extra money announced by the Westminster government generates more for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well.
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