The Week in Numbers (to Oct 6th)

At What Cost?

£30, no, it’s £15

You can now buy Boris's Unleashed book for 50% off at a discounted £15. They’ll soon be giving it away. However, if you read this week’s post on Boris the Menace and the comments, the Office geezers think you wouldn’t even have this in your “shopping trolley” if it was free.

Boris the menace

2% 

The UKHSA's annual accounts for 2022-23 report the funding limit set by DHSC for non-ring-fenced funding was £3.8 billion. Now, this is one of those numbers that washes over people, 

The NHS budget for 2022/23 was £182 billion. So the 3.8 billion equates to 2% of the NHS budget, or 1 in every 50 pounds spent in the NHS goes into the UKHSA coffers. For this, we’re yet to find anyone who can inform us how the UKHSA improves health or keeps us secure. 

The NHS: Where does all the money go?

£2.6bn 

THE UK Public Accounts Committee reports that ‘£2.6bn was paid out to claimants in 2022-23 for clinical negligence by government, which has no effective plan to minimise these costs.’ You might want to ask what it's worth to reduce clinical negl…