A breakthrough pay rise offer for nurses and ambulance workers may have to be funded within the existing NHS budget, a senior cabinet minister has admitted.Footing the bill estimated to be about 1.5bn won't be easy, according to Oliver Dowden, the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.He said it had proven challenging to find the money, days after unions and ministers clinched a deal designed to stop a wave of historic strike action across the health service in England.
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