Only last month at the Tory party conference, Mr Major renewed his manifesto commitment to increase spending in real terms every year on the NHS. 鈥Colin Brown Chief Political Correspondent
The critical question is where the money is spent. At the moment, the answer to that question can be boiled down to one word: hospitals. Spending on public health (covid-19 prevention aside) and social care has fallen in real terms over the past decade. The share of total NHS spending ...
That’s why in 2010, when we took office and had to deal with the record peacetime deficit we inherited, we prioritised the NHS with real terms increases in spending every year. That money has delivered real improvements for patients. But demand for NHS services continues to grow – and our...
In his pre-Budget speech this week Mr Brown announced that the NHS is to get an extra 1bn ($1.5bn) for 2002-3, resulting in a total increase in spending for that financial year of 6bn or 9.6% (7% in real terms) on the previous year. He also ruled …关键词:...
"This government boast that they have been increasing our spending of our cash by 7% per annum in real terms in recent years, as if this is somehow clever, difficult, or morally a good thing. After all, any fool can spend money badly." He cited as evidence "incompetent" pay ...
John Appleby assesses whether NHS efficiency savings will meet the funding gap Over the 12 years from 1997 to 2009 total spending on the NHS across the UK doubled in real terms; from 61.5bn (€84bn; $95bn) to 122.9bn—an average annual increase after inflation of 5.5% (fig 1).1 And...
Spending on the NHS has gone up by 50%in real terms since the start of the decade. Growth can't continue at this breakneck speed, but the NHS will continue to grow. And yet the focus is usually on what the NHS can't provide, rather than what it can. … Read the full-text a...
but restrictions on other health workers remain. All are stung bypriciervisas. And although the NHS escaped the worst ofausterity, pay was frozen orcapped from 2010-11 to 2017-18, meaning the starting salary for a nu...
Fig 1 Growth of real health spending and GDP per capita in OECD countries (2000-15) UK health expenditure has increased by almost 4% a year in real terms over the lifetime of the NHS.5 Real per capita spending was 268 in 1949-50, increasing to 2273 by 2016-17. But spending has ...
large numbers of people. If one assumes that the purpose of the expenditure was to create or reward a clientele class, not only does everything become clear, but it changes one’s opinion as to whether or not the whole thing was a success—in its own terms, of course.”Theodore ...