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Old 21st Oct 2016, 18:19
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abgd
 
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well, apart from the NHS
?!!!

I find that comment quite odd. One of the major problems with the NHS is that financial provision is often independent of financial obligations. e.g. if a new drug is invented, found to be effective, and supported by NICE guidelines, then hospitals risk legal action if they refuse to prescribe it on cost grounds. Yet typically no additional resources are linked to the rising costs of healthcare. Our population is ageing (and getting more expensive to look after) and our capability to do expensive tests and treatments is rising, and the costs are rising far faster than NHS funding.

I am well aware that people in the military are unhappy and underfunded - I'd be hard pushed to think of anyone in the public sector who isn't. But it's certainly not those of us in the NHS.
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