Doing a lot more with only slightly more: the NHS’s Covid-19 recovery and public expectations

Doing a lot more with only slightly more: the NHS’s Covid-19 recovery and public expectations Covid-19 demanded that the government commit massive increases to the health budget: over the past two years it has spent £80 billion on tackling the pandemic, 40 per cent above previous health spending plans. While we all hope that health spending will not need to return to these levels in the near future, the legacy costs of responding to the acute phase of the pandemic are great. The King's Fund