7 June 2018 - The amount the UK spends on health falls well behind that invested by European peers such as Germany and France, according to a report commissioned by the NHS Confederation.

While the UK is streaming more funds into healthcare than ever before, its expenditure as a proportion of national income lags that of Europe’s two other largest economies, conclude the report’s authors, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation.

As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, the UK is spending less on health than Germany, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Austria.

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