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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Are you seriously suggesting an extra 3000 million injected per year wouldn't noticeably improve services?
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Given that the NHS running costs are somewhere in the region of 120 billion per year, a 3 billion increase per year would only be a budget increase of 2.5%. So... No... I don't think it would noticeably improve anything at all.
In fact, given the sliding health standards being brought on by austerity measures, within 5 years we'll need a budget increase 5 times that just to be performing at the same level as currently.
A 3 billion one off injection is an absolute joke. Like I said: it's just a stunt to dazzle people with big numbers that aren't actually (in national budgetary terms) very big at all.