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The NHS Sinkhole

Cash injections versus assessment of alternatives and planning

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Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan
Jun 18, 2025
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The font of all knowledge, the Times, announced that the UK Chancellor will pour another £29 billion into a service which is failing the public in a significant way. The billions involved in the latest attempt to plug the National Health Service sinkhole made the two old geezers giddy.

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As 'Trust the Evidence,' we should provide evidence to support such drastic statements. For once, we can let the MSM do that; the problem is so crass that even the current crop of journalists can report it. From rock-bottom satisfaction to massive waiting lists, to dwindling beds and crumbling infrastructure, to the steady increase in “senior managers” and the projected spend, elevating the NHS to the status of a European economy bigger than Greece and soon to be bigger than Portugal.

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