Businesses call for Osborne to dip into health budget if economy worsens

Piggy bank with tightened belt

Source: mipan - Fotolia

An influential business lobby group is calling for the Treasury to consider “dismantling” the ring fence protecting health spending if the economy has not improved “significantly” by the 2012 Budget.

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