SHOCKING truths about health spending revealed: the gap between health and education budgets have increased by over FIFTY PERCENT since 2000.
After the Autumn Statement, the spending gap is due to increase further as a proportion of GDP. Grappling with an ageing population, children and the young are again at the back of the queue.
Furthermore, according to Figures provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies; and the Office for National Statistics nearly half of health spending is on people aged 65 and over (42%), despite representing less than a fifth of the population.
Amid our continued productivity and economic growth crisis, and with millennials suffering a significant and co…
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