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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
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.
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Good post T.S. - Most of any budget increase will be swallowed up by one devious method or another, and eventually find its way surreptitiously into the pay packets of the NHS top earners anyway -- or what's left of it after the 'increased' admin costs are met from it.
Or am I just a cynical bastard?