The solution to the NHS funding crisis? Its property | Dag Detter
by Dag Detter from on (#2F9BA)
The only way for the National Health Service to avoid years of deficits is for it to outsource its buildings to professional management companies
The NHS was offered little relief in Wednesday's budget. The proposed spending increase of 250m in social care the first year and then 130m the following two years will hardly cover inflation, let alone other cost pressures that the shortfall places on the health service. With such austerity the NHS faces years of underfunding, according to a King's Fund report.
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