Poll shows support for raising taxes to sustain NHS

Poll shows support for raising taxes to sustain NHS


Guardian/ICM poll finds 48% of voters back tax-funded spending increases, while 21% would prefer charges for some services

Voters remain wedded to Britain's taxpayer-funded model of healthcare even as NHS leaders question its sustainability, according to a Guardian/ICM poll. Analysis by NHS England and outside experts points to a large funding gap that could reach £30bn by the end of the decade, and last month 71 leading lights of the health service wrote to the Guardian to warn politicians that failure to level with the public about the black hole before polling day would jeopardise the service's future.

Asked how they would tackle the future funding of medicine, voters are resolved by a margin of more than two to one that "raising taxes for everybody, to put more money in" is the right way to go. Guardian

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