> In the decade following the global financial crisis in 2008, the health service faced the most prolonged spending squeeze in its history: between 2009/10 and 2018/19 health spending increased by an average of just 1.5% per year in real terms, compared to a long-term average increase of 3.6 per cent per year.
In the middle of which, the Conservatives found time, and money, to cut corporation tax.
considering how the NHS only actually spends about 5% of its budget on management, this is basically just going to be “We won’t cut your spending but you need to make people redundant”
The actual problem with the NHS is lack of social care: nursing homes, hospices, residential care, etc.
Lack of those means people who need long term care (mostly old people) block ward beds, which blocks tranfers from A&E to wards, which blocks ambulances unloading to A&E, which means you’re now lying on the floor of your house for 6 hours having a heart attack before an ambulance comes to get you.
The NHS won’t work properly until that is fixed.
Guess we’ll need to bring our own bandages and plasters
The efficient thing to do would be to pump money into it so it had space to plan shit rather than fire fighting constantly.
If you want to run fast you have to have skin on your feet.
The NHS has a lot of financial problems, some are down to residential care, some down to excess management and private companies. I’ve always wondered, why don’t we have a nationalised NHS pharmaceutical company? The NHS spend billions on drugs, why can’t we make some of them ourselves? It could save the NHS a lot of money. If the NHS made their own generics they could cut the drug bill a fair bit. If they sold their own medicines most people would buy NHS branded stuff rather than Pfizer etc. The NHS is definitely the most admired brand in the world and that potential is completely wasted. Shame no parties are offering to do it.
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How to say “We’re cutting spending in real terms” without saying “We’re cutting spending in real terms”
This would, of course, be perfectly on brand for the Conservative Party, as the [Kings Fund](https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/positions/nhs-funding) have noted:
> In the decade following the global financial crisis in 2008, the health service faced the most prolonged spending squeeze in its history: between 2009/10 and 2018/19 health spending increased by an average of just 1.5% per year in real terms, compared to a long-term average increase of 3.6 per cent per year.
In the middle of which, the Conservatives found time, and money, to cut corporation tax.
considering how the NHS only actually spends about 5% of its budget on management, this is basically just going to be “We won’t cut your spending but you need to make people redundant”
The actual problem with the NHS is lack of social care: nursing homes, hospices, residential care, etc.
Lack of those means people who need long term care (mostly old people) block ward beds, which blocks tranfers from A&E to wards, which blocks ambulances unloading to A&E, which means you’re now lying on the floor of your house for 6 hours having a heart attack before an ambulance comes to get you.
The NHS won’t work properly until that is fixed.
Guess we’ll need to bring our own bandages and plasters
The efficient thing to do would be to pump money into it so it had space to plan shit rather than fire fighting constantly.
If you want to run fast you have to have skin on your feet.
The NHS has a lot of financial problems, some are down to residential care, some down to excess management and private companies. I’ve always wondered, why don’t we have a nationalised NHS pharmaceutical company? The NHS spend billions on drugs, why can’t we make some of them ourselves? It could save the NHS a lot of money. If the NHS made their own generics they could cut the drug bill a fair bit. If they sold their own medicines most people would buy NHS branded stuff rather than Pfizer etc. The NHS is definitely the most admired brand in the world and that potential is completely wasted. Shame no parties are offering to do it.