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Date Time Once-in-a-generation opportunity to strengthen NHS and invest in UK health and care The new LSE-Lancet Commission assesses the UK’s health system and sets out a vision for its future. Post-pandemic, there is a historic opportunity to strengthen the NHS and improve health and care for all, according to a new LSE-Lancet Commission on the future of the NHS, involving the University of Exeter. The report is the first comprehensive analysis of the initial phases of the COVID-19 response and the main opportunities and challenges facing the NHS. The NHS is internationally held up as a le...

Submitting... In its new report, the Commission offers a long-term solution to NHS troubles with seven main recommendations, including “yearly increases in funding of at least 4% in real terms” for health, social care and public health over the next decade. Alongside this long-term funding commitment, the Commission recommends a one-off injection in social care spending (£3.2 billion in England in 2018/19 terms) and public health (also £3.2 billion in England in 2018/19 terms). It said this would raise the point at which people have to pay for their own care from £23,250 to £100,000, ...

Raise taxes to fund NHS and social care, experts say The experts also reject any calls for reorganisation of the NHS on a large scale (PA) The Government should put 1p on income tax, national insurance and VAT to secure the future of the NHS and social care, 33 health and political experts have said. The London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science–Lancet Commission on the future of the NHS said UK healthcare spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) is lower than average spend across G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US).

UK needs £102bn boost to NHS and social care, says major report Denis Campbell Health policy editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA A special message from Microsoft News: India is currently being devastated by a deadly second wave of Covid. You can support Oxfam's Covid relief efforts in India, including reaching out to the most affected and vulnerable communities, distributing and installing medical equipment and accessories, and supporting the most marginalised households. You can donate here. Spending on the NHS, social care and public health ne...