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Originally Posted by Bifta
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Originally Posted by Shaun
Do you know how many hospital beds there are?
The anual budget for the NHS is tens of billions of pounds, 36 million would hardly make a difference.
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244,000 (roughly), let's be generous and allow £30 per bed, that's £7,320, 000, leaving nearly 30 million, so in fact, you probably could kit every single NHS bed out with Harrods sheets and still have plenty left over. |
In fairness to Shaun (and despite my own feelings that our monarchy do not give good value for money - there are a whole load of costs not given in that report), the cost of providing a bed on the NHS is a bit more than the cost of the bed and sheets. You need to provide all the support services (medical, surgical, cleaning, maintenance etc) to go with it.