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How should we fund the NHS?

The National Health Service (NHS) has been under the media microscope recently, with a number of high-profile controversies that ultimately focus on funding. Alan Hamlin examines the ways in which the NHS could be funded

The NHS sits at the heart of the UK welfare state. While surveys regularly reveal that the NHS is very popular as an institution, it is also subject to many detailed criticisms and frequent claims of crisis, often relating to waiting lists or queueing times in Accident and Emergency Whatever the immediate crisis, the issue often comes down to the underlying debate about funding the NHS in the context of growing demand for healthcare and its ever-increasing cost.

So, how should we fund a healthcare system to ensure that it provides the relevant range and quality of healthcare to the whole population?

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