Focusing on health today as our political correspondent tony bonsignore explained to me earlier. the lib dems promising to spend an extra £1 billion a year on what is known as the public health grant. this is money given to local councils to spend on public health. they say this will reverse real terms cuts to that grant over the past decade and it will be spent on things like health checks for a0 to 74 year olds, health visits for infants and their mothers, and also wider access to blood pressure tests. the lib dems say it will be funded by a clampdown on tax avoidance and it would reduce pressure on the nhs by preventing people becoming ill in the first place. now, on the conservatives policy proposal which you have just heard from victoria atkins, the lib dems accuse the government of already failing on promises to train more doctors, to build more hospitals. they also point out that hundreds of community pharmacies have already closed in recent years. labour, meanwhile, is calling it the latest empty promise from the conservatives.
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But what we are doing with this is building, as i say, new gp practices so that we can offer even more appointments the liberal democrats are also focusing on health today as our political correspondent tony bonsignore explained to me earlier. the lib dems promising to spend an extra £1 billion a year on what is known as the public health grant. this is money given to local councils to spend on public health. they say this would reverse real terms cuts to that grant over the past decade and it will be spent on things like health checks for a0 to 74 year olds, health visits for infants and their mothers, and also wider access to blood pressure tests. the lib dems say it will be funded by a clampdown on tax avoidance and it would reduce pressure on the nhs by preventing people becoming ill in the first place. now, on the conservatives policy proposal which you have just heard from victoria atkins, the lib dems accuse the government of already failing on promises to train more doctors, to build more hospitals. they also point out that hundreds