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Royal review of NHS
Pressure on the NHS has dominated the headlines this winter. But it's only when you look to the horizon that you appreciate the true scale of its problems. According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, health spending will rise from 6.9% of GDP to 12.6% over the next 50 years. Just keeping pace with \"non-demographic cost pressures\" will need an extra L88 billion in today's money, equal to roughly 60% of NHS England's current budget. The NHS, like many 70-year-olds, suffers from multiple long-term conditions -- an ageing, expanding population, bias towards acute over primary and preventive care, the split between health and social care and the health gap between rich and poor.
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Capitalism is not to blame, it’s our escape route out of this mess
A host of virtuous voices are insisting that any bailouts must separate the corporate sheep and goats, with exemplary punishment for firms that have used such abominations as offshore registration, share buybacks and dividends. Imagine how much longer it would take to produce a vaccine without the efforts of official bodies, NGOs and pharmaceutical companies cutting the likely development time from years to months. Yet, at the same time, government command and control does not have a much better record: it is striking that the health systems that coped best with the epidemic, in Germany and South Korea, had a much wider range of provision and much more decentralisation of functions like testing.
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