NHS Policy Suggestion that I think the UK Public would overwhelmingly support.
Representatives of Doctors, Nurses, Ambulance men and women would get to strongly influence both levels of spending and what the spending is spent on. Hence the people we clapped in 2020 would decide NHS budgetary matters as opposed to a Hancock, Javid or Sunak. NHS staff are far more trusted on the NHS than Tory MPs will ever be. I do not mean NHS staff setting their own pay rates. The Independent Pay Commission would decide their pay rates. The health secretary would have a seat at the table on NHS budgeting but that is all. In general power would have been taken from the government and given to the NHS.
I think that NHS spending will continue to increase even if the above policy is never enacted. And I do not predict that it will be enacted. I think that government spending on the NHS as a percentage of GDP will go up most years and up massively over the next decade. That seems to be the trend. Giving the NHS the power over most of its own budget is not a prediction… but it is my view that it is what the public want to happen. I do not want political ego. I think there is far too much of that at Westminster. The people are sovereign. Give them what they want.