Claim: £86 billion was added to the NHS budget in 2020/21 to "fight" Covid but the NHS only got £18 billion of it.
Fact-check: Government spent much more than £18bn on the Covid health response - Full Fact
Verdict: dhsc accounts show it received £63 billion extra funding to tackle covid in 2020/21, £18 billion of which went to the nhs in england. but much of the rest was spent on other health programmes such as test and trace and buying personal protective equipment.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joe Gammie
Date published: 2023-08-24T00:00:00