Quote Originally Posted by westcountryvillain View Post
Ketts is almost £140bn a year not enough to run a health service - that's £212 for every person in the UK, a fair number of whom will not see a health professional or use a service in a year? Perhaps better scrutiny of spending and the tendering/contract process might focus a few minds?
It’s not just the day to day healthcare that us individuals use but the need for hospitals that are fit for purpose and also the equipment that goes in them. The technology that is now necessary in modern hospitals is hugely expensive to research and develop, therefore very expensive to buy. Add to that the speed that new treatments and medical machinery is being developed, plus research and costs of drugs, what you find is that money disappears at an ever increasing rate. The NHS will never be fully funded, it is like a black hole sucking in any sort of resource and cash within its gravitational pull. I wasn’t suggesting that the government is doing a great job, I’m sure that there are many things that could be done better but the inherent problems will remain. I’m all in favour of taxing the likes of Amazon and Google far more heavily, by the way, but even then, there are potential problems with that.