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Originally Posted by martyh
Well they could stop sending me appointment dates translated into every conceivable language for a start,paper costs and postage must be astronomical ,they know what language i speak and they know what ethnic group i belong to .A small saving i know but the point is from my experience the NHS is really inefficient.Don't forget as well that in a few years migrants will no longer the right live and work here so that alone should reduce the numbers the NHS is expected to treat
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Most of the growth in NHS requirements is due to an ageing population unfortunately, so even if we shut the doors right now it wouldn't make any difference to that the funding plans for the NHS for the rest of the Parliament are inadequate.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
We haven't left the European Union yet, and won't do for at least another 2.5 years, until then we keep paying into it.
So even if we were to spend some of the EU money on the NHS it Wouldn't see it for around 3 years from now. so it still has to sort itself out now.
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Sadly at least initially the money won't be there. The funding plans for the NHS for the rest of the Parliament were based on growth figures that we're already undershooting and will undershoot further next year by all estimates.
There's also a ~£20 billion divorce payment that as of right now will be due on departure.
Presumably for those and other reasons the PM has been very clear that there are no plans for extra cash for the NHS for the duration of the Parliament over and above what's already been planned - which isn't enough.
EDIT: Note the 'divorce payment' isn't that high yet, however I'm working on the assumption that Sterling and the Euro will be at parity by the time it's due, which is obviously just an estimate based on past performance.
EDIT 2: Of course also noteworthy is that the £350 million a week figure was nonsense. The most recent figures, all in, are that it was about £125 million a week, still a non-trivial sum, and the loss of growth estimated alongside the fall in Sterling already seen wipes that out with interest on lost tax receipts and more expensive borrowing costs. Those borrowing costs are even with QE buying the gilts. When the BoE stops buying the government's debt this will rise further.