In late 2010, the UK Government gave a public commitment to increase spending on the NHS by 0.1% year-on-year throughout the lifetime of the current parliament. But there are already doubts about whether this promise is being delivered. More fundamentally, critics would argue any additional funding may not necessarily benefit healthcare because of organisational bureaucracy and inefficiency.
The NHS is the largest public sector health organisation in the world but most healthcare in the western economies is similarly dependent on government funding which will become increasingly pressured as tax receipts decline during the course of the economic downturn. Other developed countries fund their healthcare through a variety of public and private insurance programmes – with varying degrees of efficiency and success in terms of healthcare outcomes. READ MORE FROM Xchanging
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