As part of the Spending Review, the NHS is set to receive £6 billion extra funding over the next five years, which will go towards new scanners, more community diagnostic centre capacity, ambulances, and Urgent Treatment Centres to support emergency care teams.

The funding injection will give patients better access to vital diagnostic scans and treatment in more convent locations, which will provide faster diagnoses and boost community treatment. This goes hand-in-hand with the commitment to build more community diagnostic centres, on top of the 170 already delivered across the country.

This follows the record investment of £232 billion in the NHS announced at the Spending Review, with £30 billion to be invested over the next five years in day-to-day maintenance and repair of the NHS estate. Over £5 billion with specifically go towards addressing the critical building repairs, which addresses Darzi’s recommendation in his review.

Chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves said: “Over a decade of underinvestment from the previous government put the NHS on its knees, with people across the country unable to get the care they need. We are investing in Britain’s renewal, and we will turn that around.

“Part of our record investment will deliver four million tests, scans, and procedures, so hard working people can get the health care they and their families need. There is no strong economy without a strong NHS, and we’ll deliver on our Plan for Change to end the hospital backlog, improve living standards and get more money in people’s pockets.”

Alongside this, the NHS will roll out increased capabilities for the NHS App and a recent £70 million investment in new radiography machines. The NHS also intent to recruit an extra 8,500 mental health staff by the end of the Parliament and an extra £4 billion a year will be made available social care by 2028-29.