Quote Originally Posted by OP67 View Post
So what do you think should be done about it??? Pretty much shows that throwing endless cash at it isn't going to sort it out. The NHS is no longer and hasn't been for a long long time been sustainable in it's current format.

Labour just use it for political points scoring while offering zero ideas!!
Utter garbage!

The NHS is on its knees because Governments (particularly Tory ones) have refused to separate funding for social care and healthcare. The Government (tax payer) isn’t throwing endless cash at the NHS…quite the opposite.

In postwar Britain, the average life expectancy was 60-70 years…it’s now 80-90 years. In postwar Britain, basic income tax was 27.5%, it’s now 20%. It was 91% for the Rich… it’s now 40%. Infant mortality is now a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of children who used to die from totally preventable illnesses and diseases in the 40s and 50s. Modern medicines and vaccines have transformed our lives!

The idea that this is a UK i.e. NHS problem is also utter bollox… the Germans and French spend far more on healthcare than we do. The UK spends about 12% GDP on healthcare… on par with most European nations.

My dad, before he died in October was in and it of hospital for years and in my first hand experience of the biggest issue facing the NHS, is the fact that our hospitals are full (to the brim) of elderly patients who cannot be sent home because there is no care in the community available… this is just a simple fact. It’s the single biggest drain on our healthcare system… it’s not a failure of the NHS…it’s a failure of Government to deal with it!

So… we’re living longer and pay far less tax (even less if you’re rich!) than we did when the NHS was founded?

The answer?…. Separate Social Care and Healthcare… fund both proportionately and fairly. And pay more tax!