Budget 2025: What does Rachel Reeves’ fiscal plan mean for the NHS?

In this episode, Matthew Taylor is joined by Anita Charlesworth, senior economic adviser at the Health Foundation and Lee Outhwaite, chief financial officer of South Yorkshire ICB and President of the HFMA, to tease out the health sector implications of the Autumn Budget. Together, they discuss measures intended to improve population health, such as scrapping the two-child benefit cap, increasing the gambling tax and extending the sugar levy, and reflect on funding earmarked for neighbourhood health hubs. They also weigh in on other challenges facing the NHS, including productivity, the need for more incisive healthcare solutions and why long-term planning is needed to improve health outcomes. Health on the Line is an NHS Confederation podcast, produced by HealthCommsPlus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Budget 2025: What does Rachel Reeves’ fiscal plan mean for the NHS? is an episode from Health On The Line by NHS Confederation.

This episode is 30:47 long.

This episode was published on Nov 27, 2025.

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