Experts back Liberal Democrat health and education plans
Liberal Democrat manifesto plans for the NHS and the education system have been recognised by experts in these areas.
Under our manifesto plans, we will invest 8bn a year in the NHS in real terms by 2020.
We are the only party toset out an NHS plan that meets that meet the financial needs of the NHS as set out by the Chief Executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens in his Five Year Forward View.
Liberal Democrat Health Minister Norman Lamb has called on the Conservatives and Labour to meet this commitment, but so far neither party has.
Discussing the financial future of the NHS on the Today programme, BBC Health Correspondent Adam Brimelow said:
We know that the NHS is looking at a really growing gap in terms of its expected income and what its likely to be spending to meet growing demand.
"Thats been identified as an 8bn gap, even after the NHS has made pretty heroic savings and improvements in efficiency.
"So there is this expectation from the health service that there will be substantial additional money coming from the government to keep it on track during the next parliament, and clearly thats going to be an enormous challenge, a challenge for politicians to make firm pledges in meeting that.
"We heard from the Liberal Democrats saying that they would plug that gap, not specifically though from Labour and the Conservatives in terms of really fulfilling that gap in spending and it is going to be a big question in the election.
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Experts back Liberal Democrat health and education plans