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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Post-Crash Index-Moderated

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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (89676)4/28/2013 5:17:42 PM
From: ggersh3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 119362
 
FWIW, when I lived in the UK in the 90's my family needed it a couple of times including a hospitalization....free as a bird and it was excellent...

en.wikipedia.org

Funding

The money to pay for the NHS comes directly from taxation. The 2008/9 budget roughly equates to a contribution of £1,980 for every man, woman and child in the UK. [24]

When the NHS was launched in 1948 it had a budget of £437million (roughly £9billion at today’s value). In 2008/9 it received over 10 times that amount (more than £100billion).

This equates to an average rise in spending over the full 60-year period of about 4% a year once inflation has been taken into account. However, in recent years investment levels have been double that to fund a major modernisation programme.

Some 60% of the NHS budget is used to pay staff. A further 20% pays for drugs and other supplies, with the remaining 20% split between buildings, equipment and training costs on the one hand and medical equipment, catering and cleaning on the other. Nearly 80% of the total budget is distributed by local trusts in line with the particular health priorities in their areas.

The total budget of Department of Health in England in 2008/9 was £94bn of which NHS England accounted for £92.5bn. [25] The National Audit Office reports annually on the summarised consolidated accounts of the NHS. [26] In 2012 the NHS budget was set at £104 Billion, or £3000 per second.
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