[stuartbman]

Unsurprising. There's a poor economic argument for funding healthcare in the UK, other than it being used as a political football to win votes. The result is decades of underfunding and then massive tranches of funding to make headlines which has to be spent immediately and therefore gets squandered on "transformation initiatives" without a focus on health outcomes.

The public are being told that the UK can't afford to pay healthcare staff market rates, and so they are all leaving the NHS. The result is this dip in GDP, which IMO is more expensive.

[krona]

Real terms funding has increased every year since 2010. It's projected to fall back slightly post-covid but its still almost 20% higher than 2019.

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...