Budget funding for the NHS

The BMJ Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI:10.1136/bmj.q2480
Anita Charlesworth
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Increases will be tempered by low productivity growth The government announced £41bn of tax rises in the October 2024 budget, which, according to the Resolution Foundation think tank, takes tax as a share of national income to a post-war record high.1 Post-pandemic, the UK is moving towards a level of taxation closer to that in other high income countries,2 but it remains to be seen if this can improve the quality of public services sufficiently. NHS England’s funding will increase by an average of 3% a year in real terms between 2023-24 and 2025-26 after pension policy changes are taken into account. This is significantly higher than the 2.1% a year increases in the five years before the pandemic. The NHS continues to take the lion’s share of additional public service spending. In 2025-26 public service spending will be 17% higher than in 2018-19, but NHS spending is up by 30%. Satisfaction with the NHS is at an all-time low,3 however, and a stronger economy and a stronger NHS are far from guaranteed. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the UK has been stuck with sclerotic productivity growth—a measure of the economy’s ability to use available inputs (eg, buildings, machines, software, labour force) to generate …
国家医疗服务系统的预算资金
政府在 2024 年 10 月的预算中宣布增税 410 亿英镑,根据 Resolution Foundation 智囊团的数据,这将使税收在国民收入中所占的比例达到战后最高纪录1。考虑到养老金政策的变化,2023-24 年至 2025-26 年期间,英国国家医疗服务体系的资金将平均每年实际增长 3%。这大大高于大流行前五年每年 2.1% 的增长率。国家医疗服务系统(NHS)继续占据公共服务额外支出的绝大部分。2025-26 年的公共服务支出将比 2018-19 年增加 17%,但 NHS 的支出却增加了 30%。然而,人们对英国国家医疗服务体系的满意度正处于历史最低点3 ,经济的强盛和英国国家医疗服务体系的强大都远非保证。自 2008 年金融危机以来,英国的生产率增长一直处于停滞状态--生产率是衡量经济利用现有投入(如建筑、机器、软件、劳动力)产生......
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