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by Niall Christie
Scotland editor
EXPERTS have told the government that it must increase income tax, national insurance and VAT to secure the future of the NHS and social care across Britain.
A report by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science–Lancet Commission on the future of the NHS said that UK healthcare spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) is lower than average spend across other G7 countries.
It argued that the Covid pandemic has brought out the best and worst in the NHS — offering protection to people in different regions but showing poor integration between the NHS and social care, chronic underfunding of social care and too few staff.
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS