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"Data indicates pandemic effects on health and NHS pressures are among the leading explanations."

Relevant charts from the BBC and FT (Financial Times) reveal the pressure on the UK's health service:

- Annual changes in health spending in the UK (BBC): https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16A6D/production...

- Deep lasting cuts to UK health spending (FT): https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223936848629760/...

- Waiting hospital lists (FT): https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223967903260673/...

This twitter thread from FT journalist John Burn-Mordoch is an damning and eye-opening look at NHS statistics (Dec 2022):

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073

There have been no NHS funding cuts: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

"Nominal healthcare expenditure rose by 7.4% in 2021 and was £54 billion greater than spending in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic"

> likely to have been driven in part by activities in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, such as testing and tracing services and the implementation of the vaccination programme

So probably no increase, pandemic billions are gone and no one will see them again

The rest service itself probably had a cut with the inflation, and increased processes and bureaucracy to manage

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