Why does the NHS cost so much? Why is it always in need of more money? Why are we sicker than ever before? When will the NHS start making us better?

The cost of the UK's NHS has become a constant problem. Expenditure is spiralling out of control. Every year there is an NHS crisis - it cannot cope with patient demand. So each year more money is ploughed it. But regardless of how much additional is spent on the NHS it continues to be in crisis.

Nor is this just a British problem, it is a problem throughout the world, in every country where pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines dominate health services. It is, in other words, a problem throughout the world.

The Department of Health has released statistics about public spending on the NHS from 1948 (its inaugural year) to 2016 under 'Freedom of Information' laws. I have reproduced these statistics below.

One of the key principles of the NHS in 1948 was that it should provide "the best medicine available to everyone". There was an expectation that whilst this would be an expensive service in the early years (those following a crippling World War) health expenditure would soon reach a plateau, and that thereafter costs would gradually reduce.

This was not an unreasonable assumption. It was expected that there would be a back-log of ill-health and sickness to deal with, but if the NHS provided the "best medicine available for everyone" this would soon ensure that sick people got better, and once well they would be a reducing charge on the NHS.

The figures provided by the Department of Health shows that this optimism has never materialised.

The annual figures, and related graphs, are reproduced below. They show how the cost of the NHS has risen dramatically, astronomically year by year.

• In 1948 spending on the NHS was 0.08% of gross national product. In 2016 is was 7.2%
• In 1948 spending on the NHS per person was £5.20. In 2016 it was £2,138.40

The graphs and figures demonstrates that the NHS has failed. And the reason for its failure has been that it has chosen to invest all its resources into one kind of medicine, conventional medicine, dominated as it is by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. These have not only fail to make us better, they are making us sicker. And the sicker we have become the more demand is placed on NHS services, and the more demands made for additional money. It has become a vicious, spiralling circle

These government statistics do not lie. My E-Book, "The Failure of Conventional Medicine" seeks to explain this failure in more detail, and why it is that we continue to demand more and more money for the NHS. The figures show that spending more money on the NHS is throwing more good money after bad.

They should be read keeping in mind the epidemic rise of chronic diseases, like cancer, dementia, autism, arthritis, diabetes, etc., during these same years.


NHS Spending - real terms (2015-2016 prices)

NHS Spending, Population and GDP 1948 - 2016
Year	Population (millions)	NHS Spending £bn	GDP £bn	Spending as % of GDP	Spending per person	% Population increase	% NHS Spending increase	% GDP increase
1948	49.659	0.26	345.31	0.08%	£5.24
1949	49.868	0.30	356.98	0.08%	£6.02	0.4%	15.4%	3.4%
1950	50.079	0.35	368.80	0.09%	£6.99	0.4%	16.7%	3.3%
1951	50.290	0.50	382.58	0.13%	£9.94	0.4%	42.9%	3.7%
1952	50.536	0.51	388.70	0.13%	£10.09	0.5%	2.0%	1.6%
1953	50.784	0.53	410.13	0.13%	£10.44	0.5%	3.9%	5.5%
1954	51.032	0.54	427.78	0.13%	£10.58	0.5%	1.9%	4.3%
1955	51.282	0.59	444.12	0.13%	£11.51	0.5%	9.3%	3.8%
1956	51.533	0.64	451.34	0.14%	£12.42	0.5%	8.5%	1.6%
1957	51.785	0.70	459.96	0.15%	£13.52	0.5%	9.4%	1.9%
1958	52.039	0.74	465.82	0.16%	£14.22	0.5%	5.7%	1.3%
1959	52.294	0.80	484.98	0.16%	£15.30	0.5%	8.1%	4.1%
1960	52.550	0.87	515.37	0.17%	£16.56	0.5%	8.7%	6.3%
1961	52.807	0.99	529.15	0.19%	£18.75	0.5%	13.8%	2.7%
1962	53.111	1.00	534.99	0.19%	£18.83	0.6%	1.0%	1.1%
1963	53.417	1.07	561.06	0.19%	£20.03	0.6%	7.0%	4.9%
1964	53.725	1.16	592.13	0.20%	£21.59	0.6%	8.4%	5.5%
1965	54.034	1.31	604.80	0.22%	£24.24	0.6%	12.9%	2.1%
1966	54.345	1.44	614.31	0.23%	£26.50	0.6%	9.9%	1.6%
1967	54.658	1.60	631.43	0.25%	£29.27	0.6%	11.1%	2.8%
1968	54.973	1.73	665.78	0.26%	£31.47	0.6%	8.1%	5.4%
1969	55.289	1.81	678.59	0.27%	£32.74	0.6%	4.6%	1.9%
1970	55.608	2.08	696.97	0.30%	£37.40	0.6%	14.9%	2.7%
1971	55.928	2.36	721.26	0.33%	£42.20	0.6%	13.5%	3.5%
1972	55.970	2.66	752.28	0.35%	£47.53	0.1%	12.7%	4.3%
1973	56.013	3.02	801.25	0.38%	£53.92	0.1%	13.5%	6.5%
1974	56.055	3.94	781.51	0.50%	£70.29	0.1%	30.5%	-2.5%
1975	56.097	5.27	769.95	0.68%	£93.94	0.1%	33.8%	-1.5%
1976	56.140	6.22	792.36	0.79%	£110.79	0.1%	18.0%	2.9%
1977	56.182	6.91	811.71	0.85%	£122.99	0.1%	11.1%	2.4%
1978	56.225	7.89	845.82	0.93%	£140.33	0.1%	14.2%	4.2%
1979	56.267	9.10	877.47	1.04%	£161.73	0.1%	15.3%	3.7%
1980	56.310	11.79	859.67	1.37%	£209.38	0.1%	29.6%	-2.0%
1981	56.358	13.42	853.05	1.57%	£238.12	0.1%	13.8%	-0.8%
1982	56.465	14.38	870.20	1.65%	£254.67	0.2%	7.2%	2.0%
1983	56.572	14.50	906.94	1.60%	£256.31	0.2%	0.8%	4.2%
1984	56.680	15.40	927.58	1.66%	£271.70	0.2%	6.2%	2.3%
1985	56.788	16.50	966.50	1.71%	£290.55	0.2%	7.1%	4.2%
1986	56.896	17.50	996.69	1.76%	£307.58	0.2%	6.1%	3.1%
1987	57.004	18.70	1,049.58	1.78%	£328.05	0.2%	6.9%	5.3%
1988	57.112	20.50	1,109.91	1.85%	£358.94	0.2%	9.6%	5.7%
1989	57.221	22.60	1,138.43	1.99%	£394.96	0.2%	10.2%	2.6%
1990	57.330	24.50	1,146.76	2.14%	£427.35	0.2%	8.4%	0.7%
1991	57.439	27.50	1,134.30	2.42%	£478.77	0.2%	12.2%	-1.1%
1992	57.604	31.20	1,138.54	2.74%	£541.63	0.3%	13.5%	0.4%
1993	57.770	35.02	1,167.31	3.00%	£606.20	0.3%	12.2%	2.5%
1994	57.936	37.01	1,212.60	3.05%	£638.81	0.3%	5.7%	3.9%
1995	58.103	40.49	1,242.55	3.26%	£696.87	0.3%	9.4%	2.5%
1996	58.270	39.66	1,274.09	3.11%	£680.62	0.3%	-2.0%	2.5%
1997	58.438	41.34	1,325.54	3.12%	£707.42	0.3%	4.2%	4.0%
1998	58.606	43.15	1,367.14	3.16%	£736.27	0.3%	4.4%	3.1%
1999	58.775	47.02	1,411.11	3.33%	£800.00	0.3%	9.0%	3.2%
2000	58.944	49.57	1,462.82	3.39%	£840.97	0.3%	5.4%	3.7%
2001	59.114	54.34	1,500.03	3.62%	£919.24	0.3%	9.6%	2.5%
2002	59.455	59.93	1,536.90	3.90%	£1,007.99	0.6%	10.3%	2.5%
2003	59.799	66.20	1,588.02	4.17%	£1,107.04	0.6%	10.5%	3.3%
2004	60.145	74.92	1,625.57	4.61%	£1,245.66	0.6%	13.2%	2.4%
2005	60.493	82.93	1,675.90	4.95%	£1,370.90	0.6%	10.7%	3.1%
2006	60.843	89.58	1,717.06	5.22%	£1,472.31	0.6%	8.0%	2.5%
2007	61.194	94.69	1,757.52	5.39%	£1,547.37	0.6%	5.7%	2.4%
2008	61.548	102.34	1,749.22	5.85%	£1,662.77	0.6%	8.1%	-0.5%
2009	61.904	108.75	1,675.96	6.49%	£1,756.75	0.6%	6.3%	-4.2%
2010	62.262	116.92	1,704.36	6.86%	£1,877.87	0.6%	7.5%	1.7%
2011	62.649	119.83	1,729.12	6.93%	£1,912.72	0.6%	2.5%	1.5%
2012	63.067	121.25	1,754.74	6.91%	£1,922.56	0.7%	1.2%	1.5%
2013	63.488	124.30	1,790.75	6.94%	£1,957.85	0.7%	2.5%	2.1%
2014	63.912	129.39	1,845.44	7.01%	£2,024.50	0.7%	4.1%	3.1%
2015	64.338	134.05	1,888.74	7.10%	£2,083.53	0.7%	3.6%	2.3%
2016	64.768	138.50	1,922.63	7.20%	£2,138.40	0.7%	3.3%	1.8%
Increase	15.109	138.24	1,577.32
						NB. 2002	Increase
%	30.43%	53,169.23%	456.78%	9567.36%	40842.65%		via NI
							Contribution
Pop. Incr. from 1948-2016 - 15,109Million people -  30.4%
NHS Spend Incr.from 1948-2016 £138.24Bn - 53169.2%.
Increase in GDP from1948-2016 - £1577.32Bn - 456.78%
Increase Spend Individual 1948-2016 - 40842.6%
					http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/spending_chart_1940_2000UKb_17c1li111mcn_10t
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