Seven per cent thought that NHS spending, in cash terms, had gone up by half, with the remainder evenly split between 'doubled', 'trebled' and 'quadrupled'.
This handy website confirms that cash spending has in fact trebled since 1997. In 'real' terms (adjusted for inflation) it has doubled and in 'real real' terms (adjusted for GDP growth) it has gone up by two-thirds (from 5% to 8.4% of GDP).
So now you know. But is the service two-thirds better than twelve years ago? Does anybody know?
I see that our traditional annual A-level result debate has broken out again, so that's the topic of this week's Fun Online Poll. Cast your vote using the widget in sidebar.
We don't need no stinkin' objectivity
2 hours ago
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What you mean the debate about
"It's the time of year when newspapers run photos of sixth form girls. Is it true they really are getting easier on the eye"
Apols to originator - I can't recall the site.
This is the one
There is no way at all of measuring the service improvements - if any - as there is no price signal. And this is the fundamental problem.
The employees know this since they are very keen not to expose the endemic producer capture to market forces.
Hmmmm - halfway.
If we get the rigt answer to the A Level poll do we het an A-Level?
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