£1.36 billion
Age UK considers the cost of cold homes to the NHS was £1.36bn in 2016 per year.
£1.3 billion
This winter fuel fiasco will save Labour £1.3bn this year.
60 million
Hmmm: £60 million is the amount the government could save if those cold homes weren’t so cold.
700,000
Sir John Bell’s take on the solution from his Radio 4 interview republished in the Spectator - apparently, inclisiran for 700,000 people is the solution –
£1.3 billion
Novartis has a commercial deal with the NHS that allows it to buy the drug at a reduced cost. The deal details are confidential, but the NHS list price is just over £1,900. So, only about an extra £1.3 billion is needed to cover the cost.
That 1.3 Billion figure sounds familiar. But Sir John thinks it’s all down to the miserable, “disgraceful” GPs.
1.7 million
The NHS in England directly employs 1.7 million people (equivalent to 1.5 million full-time staff) - employee costs account for around two-thirds of NHS providers’ expenditure.
2.4 million
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