According to Gallup, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are nearly tied for the top spot in the 2016 presidential election — and the one-day polling bump for the Democratic front-runner has been substantial.
Gallup released its annual presidential tracking poll and found that Clinton is drawing a small lead of three percentage points over Trump. Gallup’s last presidential vote tracking survey in December found Clinton ahead of Trump by just 1 percentage point, 43% to 41%.
The poll surveyed more than 1,100 registered voters from Aug. 9-15 and carries a 2.6% margin of sampling error.
The UK government should use a new £45 million fund to help people and charities who rely on the NHS to help fund emergency care if it was cut in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the head of the charity Care UK said.
In an article in The Independent , Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said he did not want the government running short of funds to keep the NHS afloat. “There should, I think, be some way to try and do that – that’s absolutely right,” Hunt said.
Care UK, which represents charities that care for people with a range of conditions, warned that any cut in NHS funding of between £12bn and £15bn would be catastrophic for the health service, and urged the government to put in place contingency plans now. “The impact on the NHS of a failure to secure sufficient funds to keep the service going would be monumental,” it said. “With no guarantees of funding, and with no assurance of continuity in services or funding elsewhere, the NHS could easily be without the resources it currently relies on to keep people safe, healthy and well.”
Hunt has announced plans in the autumn for the NHS to be reduced to a bare bones budget by the end of March. The measures would involve cutting £18bn of spending, including the provision of free care.
Caring for the disabled, and other vulnerable patients, would be affected. The coalition government has increased spending on the NHS in real terms. The proportion of people on the waiting list for hospital treatments rose to a record high in April, according to the latest statistics.
Care UK director of health policy, Jon Trickett, told The Independent on Sunday that he supported Hunt’s plans to cut NHS spending in the event of a “no deal” Brexit. “There is a real risk the NHS could fall into crisis and, while we cannot predict the future, we can all help to prepare for
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