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The NHS faces significant challenges due to the coronavirus outbreak, requiring additional funding and resources.
What steps are being taken to ensure frontline NHS staff have adequate equipment like protective clothing as well as financial support from the Government during this crisis?
The Chancellor has made it clear we will do whatever is needed to protect our NHS frontline, providing PPE, additional capacity in independent hospitals, speeding up patient discharges with £1.3 billion, supporting adult social care with £1.6 billion, and funding diagnostics research (£30 million) and testing (£10 million).
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