Since the inceptionof the National Health Service in 1948, the vast majority of health care funding in the United Kingdom has been provided from general taxation. The result has been a health service to which the public has a great atachment. However,t heUK has fallen behind equivalent countries in terms of both money invested and health outcomes seen. Consideerably more investment will be needed over the next 20 years if the UK is to catch up with its peers and maintain the high-quality servcie that the public increasingly wants.
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