Forbes July 7, 2024
The Labour Party in Britain won an historic landslide election on July 4th, ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule. One of the new Labour government’s major goals is to revive the National Health Service by cutting wait times for diagnoses and treatments and boosting population health outcomes. But restoring the NHS to a more functionally optimal state faces uphill challenges, not least of which will be funding at a time when the economy is weak and the government has pledged no new tax hikes.
The NHS is a system of publicly (tax) funded healthcare services throughout the four nations of the United Kingdom that provides care to all residents free at the point of delivery. The NHS was the...