Spending ever more on the NHS and less on education: is this sensible?

“The increase in health spending between 2019 and 2022 would,” observes Johnson, “be enough to utterly transform any other public service.” Day to day spending has risen by over 20% in a decade, while capital spending has fallen by 10%, a formula, writes Johnson, that threatens NHS sustainability. T...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2023-04, Vol.381, p.916-916
Main Author: Smith, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Budgets
Capital expenditures
Education
Educational Status
Government spending
Health Expenditures
Humans
Opinion
State Medicine
War
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Summary:“The increase in health spending between 2019 and 2022 would,” observes Johnson, “be enough to utterly transform any other public service.” Day to day spending has risen by over 20% in a decade, while capital spending has fallen by 10%, a formula, writes Johnson, that threatens NHS sustainability. The UK has a severe skills shortage, but “there have been huge cuts in spending on adult education for nearly two decades—nearly two-thirds down in real terms on 2003/04 and about half compared to 2009/10.
ISSN:1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.p916