Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 8597

NHS: Finance

Tabled: 10 October 2024
Answered: 16 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National PartyAberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to take steps to reduce the discrepancies in the UK’s health spending relative to other countries in North West Europe.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to properly funding the National Health Service. However, money alone will not be enough, and it must come with reform. As Lord Darzi’s report sets out, health system models in other countries where user charges, like social or...

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