The state of health and care 2022

The state of health and care 2022 The pandemic has rapidly accelerated an existing trend of decline in access and outcomes. This is creating the conditions for an ‘opt-out’ by those who have the means – embedding a two-tier system.

There is near-universal public support for retaining a universal, free, comprehensive and tax-funded NHS. Our polling shows a consensus in public support for the basic principles of the NHS as a system that universalises the benefits of the best healthcare and shares the cost across the population. Institute for Public Policy Research

See also:

• Up to 2million Brits gave up on the NHS and went private during Covid, report warns The Daily Mail
• Private healthcare boom adds to fears of two-tier system in UK The Guardian
• Warning over ‘two-tier’ healthcare system amid rise in private patients The Independent