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Maintain NHS funding by increasing taxes
The King’s Fund think tank has found that 66 per cent of the public are willing ‘to pay more taxes in order to maintain the level of spending needed’ on the NHS.
The poll also found that 77 per cent of people believed the NHS to be ‘crucial to British society’ and think that it must be properly maintained.
Additional to the two thirds backing higher taxes, 20 per cent of respondents would endorse cuts in spending on other services so that the NHS could receive a boost to its budget.
Dan Wellings, senior policy analyst at the King’s Fund, said: “Clearly the [rising] volume of noise around the problems the NHS is facing, and the warnings from within the health sector around inadequate funding, are increasingly cutting through to the public in a significant way. The fact that two-thirds of the public are saying that they would pay more tax to fund it shows the strength of feeling around NHS funding. This finding comes at a time of unprecedented levels of public concern about the NHS’s future; pessimism about that is at a record level.”
The poll was run by Ipsos MORI.
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