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NHS spending 1948/49 to 2014/15 [137] Blair and Brown raised spending on the NHS and other public services, increasing spending from 39.9% of GDP to 48.1% in 2010–11. [138] [139] They pledged in 2001 to bring NHS spending to the levels of other European countries, and doubled spending in real terms to over £100 billion in England alone. [140]
The NHS Plan 2000 was a ten year plan of the Blair ministry for the National Health Service (England). It combined a commitment to substantial investment with some quite radical changes. The most controversial aspect of the plan was the introduction of more private sector providers and a more competitive internal market.
The NHS encountered significant problems with the information technology (IT) innovations accompanying the Blair reforms. The NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT), believed to be the largest IT project in the world, is running significantly behind schedule and above budget, with friction between the government and the programme contractors.
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Alan Milburn said the NHS needs to be weaned off what he said was a ‘more, more, more’ culture NHS crisis ‘a million times worse’ than under Tony Blair, former health secretary warns Skip ...
The UK has the fifth largest share of healthcare financed through government schemes out of the 36 OECD member states. [6]According to the Department of Health and Social Care a total of £9.2 billion was paid to private providers in England in 2018-9, or about 7% of the departmental budget (it would be a larger proportion of the NHS budget).
The SNP leader said Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting is a ‘clear and present danger’ to the NHS. Labour manifesto should rule out ‘creeping privatisation of NHS’ – John ...
Initially launched in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, and expanded considerably by the Blair government, PFI is part of the wider programme of privatisation and macroeconomic public policy, and presented as a means for increasing accountability and efficiency for public spending. [2] PFI is controversial in the UK.