The NHS should be first in line to receive any financial savings that come about as the result of Britain leaving the European Union, England’s health secretary has said. Speaking at the NHS Providers conference in Birmingham on 8 November, Jeremy Hunt said that, despite no government commitment to increase NHS funding because of Brexit, this should happen if possible. Referring to a proposal by the Vote Leave campaign to increase NHS funding by £350m (€396m; $458m) a week if Britain left the EU, Hunt said, “As you know, it wasn’t a government promise; it was a promise by the Leave campaign, but what I very much agree with is [that] if there is a Brexit dividend [and] if we end up having less pressure on public finance because of not making contributions to the EU, I believe that the NHS should be the first port of …

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亨特表示，NHS应该是潜在的英国脱欧节省的“首选”

英国卫生部长说，由于英国退出欧盟而产生的任何财务节省，国民保健服务应该率先获得批准。杰里米·亨特（Jeremy Hunt）在11月8日于伯明翰举行的NHS提供商会议上发表讲话时说，尽管政府没有因英国退欧而增加NHS资金的承诺，但如果可能的话，这应该会发生。谈到“请假”运动提出的一项提议，即如果英国离开欧盟，每周要增加NHS资金3.5亿英镑（3.96亿欧元； 4.58亿美元），亨特说：“如您所知，这不是政府的承诺；这是政府的承诺。这是“休假”运动的承诺，但我非常同意的是，[如果]英国脱欧带来红利，[如果]由于不向欧盟捐款，我们最终对公共财政的压力较小，我相信NHS应该是…的第一个港口