This is what much of the debate about our post-election spending plans is missing. NHS funding is also up by a third since 2010.

The answer isn’t just more money, it has to be about productivity. If we can hit the 0.5% productivity growth increases we regularly got in the years…

Jeremy Hunt Your cretinous predecessors taxed NHS Consultants’ pension contributions so punitively that many of us ceased additional NHS activity. That work was nonpensionable & paid at plain time rates; it represented unbelievable value for the taxpayer. Tory fiscal policy hobbled the NHS.