zlacker

>at the root of a whole lot of them is that the NHS needs a funding increase of 20%-30% to get to similar levels of funding per capita as similarly wealthy countries

As a percentage of GDP, UK healthcare spending is well above the EU and OECD averages. We spend a greater share of our national income on healthcare than Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Finland or Norway.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_...

>>jdietr+(OP)
That's another way of saying the UK economy is relatively weak compared to some of the richest countries in the world.