To: The National Lottery and Wes Streeting (Secretary of State for Health)
National Lottery NHS Support Day
A Bill to be presented by the Health Secretary to allow one days income per year from the National Lottery Fund to be used to pay for Health Service Supplementary Projects (from an ordered list produced by NHS England as part of each Budget).
All appropriate and specific rule changes for the use of Lottery Income to be designed by the Civil Service and passed by the House of Commons.
All appropriate and specific rule changes for the use of Lottery Income to be designed by the Civil Service and passed by the House of Commons.
Why is this important?
The income is there in the national Lottery and in all national consultations we have shown that we want more resources to be allocated to assist the NHS.
Most people would be happy to see an agreed amount from our lottery used to supplement specific and needy aspects of our Health Service as long as it was not undermining statutory funding of the Service. We would therefore need the Agreed List of crucial but difficult -to-fund aspects (example, -funding of wheelchairs for use by the volunteers usually assisting at every hospital entrance).
Most people would be happy to see an agreed amount from our lottery used to supplement specific and needy aspects of our Health Service as long as it was not undermining statutory funding of the Service. We would therefore need the Agreed List of crucial but difficult -to-fund aspects (example, -funding of wheelchairs for use by the volunteers usually assisting at every hospital entrance).
