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Rishi Sunak is preparing to hand the NHS an extra £5billion from public coffers despite signing off a new £36billion health and social care package last month.
The money will be given to NHS England to fund a digital transformation in the one-in-10 trusts that are still using 'paper-based systems'.
The cash will also be used to part-fund a slew of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson.
But the additional funding, to be announced in the Chancellor's three-year spending review on Wednesday, will raise eyebrows.
In September NHS bosses were given a £30billion handout as Boris Johnson clobbered Britons with their highest tax burden since the Second World War.
The Health Service will receive the vast majority of the £36billion raised by a National Insurance hike over the next three years, with social care receiving a £5.3billion slice.
The additional funding, to be announced in the Chancellor's three-year spending review on Wednesday, will raise eyebrows.
The money will be given to NHS England to fund a digital transformation in the one-in-10 trusts that are still using
