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  National Health Service - Health Spending and Rationing by Cost
  
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  @ MP voted no against asking the Government to take action to prevent rationing by cost in the NHS and against calling on the Government to honour its pledge to increase health spending in real terms each year.
  @ MP voted aye to ask the Government to take action to prevent rationing by cost in the NHS and to call on the Government to honour its pledge to increase health spending in real terms each year.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against asking the Government to take action to prevent rationing by cost in the NHS and against calling on the Government to honour its pledge to increase health spending in real terms each year.
  
  The rejected motion read:
  
  :That this House 
  :''regrets'' the growing gap between Ministersâ statements and what is happening in the NHS; 
  :''notes'' mounting evidence of rationing of treatments and services by cost, despite Ministersâ claims to have prevented it; 
  :''further regrets'' the increasing number of cost-driven reconfigurations of hospital services, despite the Coalition Agreementâs promise of a moratorium on changes to hospital services; 
  :''further notes'' growing private sector involvement in both the commissioning and provision of NHS services, contradicting Ministersâ claims that the NHS reorganisation would not increase levels of privatisation; 
  :''recognises'' that, according to the Governmentâs Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses figures, actual Government spending on the NHS in 2011-12 fell by Â£26 million, the second successive real-terms reduction in NHS spending, following a reduction of Â£766 million in the Governmentâs first year in office, in breach of the commitment in the Coalition Agreement; 
  :''believes'' the Governmentâs decision to reorganise the NHS has distracted its focus from the financial challenge, with seven out of 10 acute hospital trusts in England missing savings targets in the first half of 2011-12; 
  :''calls on'' the Government to take action to prevent rationing by cost in the NHS, based on the evidence presented;  and :
  :''further calls'' on the Government to honour pledges on NHS spending in the Coalition Agreement, and the commitment that future savings will be reinvested into the NHS front line, and to return at least half of the underspend to the Department of Health budget.
  
  The coalition agreement[1] stated:
  
  :We will guarantee that health spending increases in real terms in each year of the Parliament, while recognising the impact this decision will have on other departments.
  
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  * [1] [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78977/coalition_programme_for_government.pdf The Coalition: our programme for government in PDF Format - 20 May 2010]
  
  
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