NHS facing £16bn funding gap to meet ‘world class’ pledge, research finds

[Northerner]

The NHS in England needs 74,000 more hospital beds to catch up with the average provision in EU-15 member states, new research has warned.

The TUC and NHS Support Federation said England has 2.4 beds per 1,000 people compared to the average of 3.7 beds for EU-15 countries.

The research also found the Government would need to increase funding for the NHS by 5% per year in order to reach the ‘world class’ standards promised by the prime minister earlier this month.

https://www.localgov.co.uk/NHS-faci...-meet-world-class-pledge-research-finds/45565

 

[grovesy]

It does not surprise me.

 

[mikeyB]

That 5% is, surprisingly perhaps, the figure that Jeremy Hunt told President May was needed to make the NHS the envy of the world again, before he was beaten down by the self-funding Libreteer.