Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week
As a UK tax payer, and as a UK tax payer that winces every time they see how much they lose to taxation in their P60 each year (six figures in tax), what are people&#x27;s solutions to this?<p>It seems like the NHS budget keeps on going up and up and up [1], as does the  number of doctors and nurses (while &quot;managers&quot; has either declined or stayed relatively static) [2].  So NHS is getting more funding, and there are more doctors and nurses.  Yet there is still outcry about how we need MOAR MOAR MOAR!<p>We&#x27;re spending ~10% of GDP on the NHS at the moment [3] - how much more do people want? 10% appears to be roughly comparable to other developed nations (except USA...) and the data says that nurses and doctors <i>are</i> increasing in numbers while &quot;managers&quot; are not, so the usual cries about the money being spent on &quot;management consultants&quot; appears to be ill-founded, as does the complaints that it is the Tory party reducing funding.<p>Throwing money at the problem appears not to be working because the budget keeps going up, the numbers of doctors and nurses keeps going up, yet people are still complaining about it being awful?  What gives?  What is the solution when just spending more money isn&#x27;t working?<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bma.org.uk&#x2F;advice-and-support&#x2F;nhs-delivery-and-workforce&#x2F;funding&#x2F;nhs-funding-data-analysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bma.org.uk&#x2F;advice-and-support&#x2F;nhs-delivery-and-w...</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kingsfund.org.uk&#x2F;audio-video&#x2F;key-facts-figures-nhs#how-many" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kingsfund.org.uk&#x2F;audio-video&#x2F;key-facts-figures-n...</a><p>3- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kingsfund.org.uk&#x2F;audio-video&#x2F;key-facts-figures-nhs#how-much-does-it-cost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kingsfund.org.uk&#x2F;audio-video&#x2F;key-facts-figures-n...</a>