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From: Denc 🗡
Politicians answer, Throw money at it Doubling cash for NHS ‘had no impact’ on health Billions more pumped into service with little to show for life expectancy levels and waiting lists, say critic NHS spending has doubled in 17 years with “no impact” on the nation’s health, a former health minister has admitted. Lord Bethell, a Conservative minister under Boris Johnson, said Britain was facing “a social, moral and economic disaster” because billions of pounds were being wasted. The peer made the comments to The Telegraph during a joint interview with Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, the former deputy chief medical officer (CMO), who warned of a “demographic time bomb” that the health service was failing to address. Lord Bethell said that a doubling in NHS spending in the past 17 years, from about £100bn to £200bn, had had “no impact” on the nation’s health, with outcomes getting worse for many and life expectancy flatlining.

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Politicians answer, Throw money at it...[more]	Denc 🗡	02:05:36
>> Britain was facing “a social, moral and economic disaster”... ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:19:22
>> £ 200 bn, a fifth of a trillion quid. What a complete shambles.	Free Thinking Doggie	06:59:52

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