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https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/ https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/ Total health spending in England was around £129 billion in
by drocer88 6y ago
https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/ https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/
Total health spending in England was around £129 billion in 2018/19 and is expected to rise to nearly £134 billion by 2019/20, taking inflation into account.
- marcinzm 6y agoThat comes out to $2k/year/UK resident which is amazingly low I'd say. Staff are also limited to 1% salary increase per year since 2010 which is below inflation.
- lostlogin 6y agoA little pedantic - England is not the UK and that budget quoted above was for England. The budget for all countries is larger, and England spends a bit less per citizen than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. https://fullfact.org/health/what-is-the-nhs-budget/ https://fullfact.org/health/what-is-the-nhs-budget/
- marcinzm 6y agoFair point although England is by far the majority of the population so per capita spend only goes up 20%. Still not a very high number and near the bottom for G7 nations.
- lostlogin 6y agoYes, it’s a big difference. I also noticed that the per capita spend is a fair bit higher in the UK when you exclude England, Northern Ireland in particular. This could be skewed to look more significant than it really is, because the economies of scale could be helping England.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoHow much of that is spent on front-line service provision, and how much on "management"?
- marcinzm 6y agoRoughly 8% is spent on management which makes up 4% of the workforce. Which is significantly less than the private sector. That took me 60 seconds to Google btw.