ex. How many ambulances at a few pounds in 1948, which were vans with a stretcher in the back and a couple of blokes to drive it. What about 2022? The cost, roughly £150K for the ambulance, goodness knows what to train up ambulance technicians and paramedics. If the kit is broken, the ambulance can be out of service, which means more units to provide cover (or not if you can't afford it!). The on top of all that, many more people go to hospital because the care is leagues above what you got in 1948.
Ditto for equipment costs like Digital XRays, MRIS etc.
All of that is not surprising or even undesirable but it would be interesting to see the additional tax that you should be taking per-person to pay for all of this additional equipment. If the NHS costs around 30% of expenditure i.e. 30% of my tax then roughly 7.5% of my income covers the cost of the NHS, maybe £6K per year. When we look at things that way, you can see why the Government doesn't want to take any money in tax because that sounds like a lot of money. You can also see how they can't reduce costs by going backwards in replacing high-tech with no-tech.