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Total health spending in England was around £129 billion in 2018/19 and is expected to rise to nearly £134 billion by 2019/20, taking inflation into account.

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That comes out to $2k/year/UK resident which is amazingly low I'd say. Staff are also limited to 1% salary increase per year since 2010 which is below inflation.

A little pedantic - England is not the UK and that budget quoted above was for England. The budget for all countries is larger, and England spends a bit less per citizen than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. https://fullfact.org/health/what-is-the-nhs-budget/

Fair point although England is by far the majority of the population so per capita spend only goes up 20%. Still not a very high number and near the bottom for G7 nations.

Yes, it’s a big difference. I also noticed that the per capita spend is a fair bit higher in the UK when you exclude England, Northern Ireland in particular. This could be skewed to look more significant than it really is, because the economies of scale could be helping England.

How much of that is spent on front-line service provision, and how much on "management"?

Roughly 8% is spent on management which makes up 4% of the workforce. Which is significantly less than the private sector. That took me 60 seconds to Google btw.

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