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Why is Wes Streeting launching a report that argues the NHS doesn’t need to change its funding model? The Health Secretary gave a speech this morning at the IPPR to mark a new analysis of whether social insurance systems automatically lead to better health outcomes. The answer, according to the report’s authors at least, is that they don’t and that overhauling the funding source of the NHS would not solve its most serious problems.
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Its analysis ‘confirms the finding of other studies: no group of health systems systematically outperforms another’, but it is not exactly complimentary of the NHS itself. It points out that the health service ‘performs poorly across too many indicators of care quality, access and overall, including when compared with other tax-funded systems’. This underperformance is due to ‘long-term undercapitalisation, a short-termist approach to efficiency in which the system has been run at unsustainable pressure, and underinvestment in administrative capacity that enables effective delivery. Changing the funding model is highly unlikely to........