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The NHS will "cease to exist in any recognisable form" by the end of the decade unless major reforms are introduced to secure its future funding by introducing a 1p increase in national insurance contributions, the former Labour minister Frank Field has warned.
In an echo of calls from senior members of the shadow cabinet for NHS funding guarantees, the former welfare reform minister said a 1p increase in national insurance (NICs) would raise £30bn over the next parliament between 2015-20.
But Field said that his plans would be fairer and more progressive than the 1p increase on NICs introduced by Gordon Brown after the 2001 general election to fund increased NHS spending. He says that only half of the extra NICs increase in 2001 went on the NHS.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/02/nhs-funding-national-insurance-frank-field-labour
It gets my vote 🙂
In an echo of calls from senior members of the shadow cabinet for NHS funding guarantees, the former welfare reform minister said a 1p increase in national insurance (NICs) would raise £30bn over the next parliament between 2015-20.
But Field said that his plans would be fairer and more progressive than the 1p increase on NICs introduced by Gordon Brown after the 2001 general election to fund increased NHS spending. He says that only half of the extra NICs increase in 2001 went on the NHS.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/02/nhs-funding-national-insurance-frank-field-labour
It gets my vote 🙂