Health Spending

A bargain not.

try reading the link and you wouldn't have to suspect anything..


Our initial estimates suggest that government healthcare spending in 2022 was in the region of £230 billion, accounting for over four-fifths (81.5%) of total healthcare expenditure.

OK Sid, so the Tories have put an extra 15 billion in over 10 years, in real terms taking account of inflation.
They just need to account for the increase in population now...
Which is up about 6% in that period, so still an increase accounting for population. Well done the nasty party.

Less needs to be spent on all this diversity bollocks.

Couldn't have put it better meself. 

What political bias does the Office For National Statistics have?

There are different types of inflation, RPI is what UK inflation used to be measured by, but when the Bank of England gained political independence in 1997, we switched to the more appropriate CPI (Consumer Price Index) which measures services aswell as goods.

However, there are specific or specialised Inflation Rates, and one such is "Health Services Inflation", which is generally higher than CPI because of the costs of advances in technology, sciences, research, development and high tech etc.

For most of the years under the last Labour government, NHS budgets increased well over and beyond CPI inflation.

Its not rocket science for anyone to see that the NHS is in trouble, in 2010 the satisfaction rate of the NHS was at a record high - VERY different from today.

In 2010 it generally did not take two or three weeks to see a GP, it was more like two or three days.

In 2010 is was very rare to hear the kinds of stories we hear now regarding ambulance response times, and the thousands of horror stories of people left in pain for hours waiting for an ambulance.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO BLAME Covid for all this - Waiting lists have risen EVERY year since 2010, and before Covid arrived the waiting lists were 5 MILLION.

Today the waiting lists are at 7.6 Million

Four out of ten people refered for URGENT treatment have still not had treatment started after two months.

The government has NO CHOICE but to address the real terms reduction in pay for doctors, otherwise the steady flow of doctors leaving the NHS will turn into an haemorrage of people leaving.

I understand and accept that asking for a 35% increase in one go is not practical, and that the country cannot aford it. However, this IS the figure which would correct the loss of pay in real terms since 2010.

The government has to make a promise to correct the loss of real terms pay over a number of years, perhaps guarantee a pay increase of "Inflation + 2%" until the loss in real terms pay is repaired.

There is a serious staff shortage in our NHS because people are leaving, and others are going part time or taking early retirement. Many are going abroad, others going into private medicine and other jobs.

It is a Free Market, and if the terms and conditions of health professionals here are reduced, or if pay goes down, they will go else where, and this is happening.

THere has got to be a different way of thinking, maybe outside the box, there is an answer somewhere as to how we can restore the NHS back to where it was in 2010, if it was working ok then, we can fix it, but it must begin by getting rid of the people who have overseen the gradual deterioration of our NHS - THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT.