Claim: The government are putting £34 billion into the NHS, the biggest ever cash injection.
Fact-check: Boris Johnson's first interview of 2020: fact checked - Full Fact
Verdict: this is the spending increase between 2018/19 and 2023/24 in cash terms, but that's not the most meaningful way to look at it. in real terms it's a spending increase of £20.5 billion and that's not a record level.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00