Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: As Sally Gainsbury (Nuffield Trust) says at the heart of the budget part of the NHS ...

As Sally Gainsbury (Nuffield Trust) says at the heart of the budget part of the NHS crisis is a simple fact:

'While technological advance elsewhere tends to reduce costs, in healthcare it increases them by expanding what treatments are possible. As a consequence, it also expands what the public expects to receive.... [And so] healthcare consumption tends to grow at more than twice the rate of population growth'.

Managing that is, of course, the political challenge

#Health #politics
h/t FT