So modern medicine keeps people alive longer and with much more complicated illness. Drug companies come up with ever more expensive solutions for rarer illness. All the people in the NHS are living longer after retirement and each year the pension cost to the NHS increases.
Unless you are a greater economist than me (which may be the case,) bollocks is a rather crude response with no factual evidence.
The 'bollocks' is your claim that the NHS is unfundable. There's so much achievable cost saving, a few ideas literally off the top of my head;
1. Clinical practice still has a lot of improvement within it to save costs.
2. Reign in the private over valued contracts.
3. Cut down non clinical management roles.
4. Implement more home care, it's a better and cheaper option in a lot of cases, also freeing capacity.
5. Better bed management, more timely discharge, don't have someone waiting 7 hours in bed for the pharmacy before discharge, discharge and local delivery of prescription when suitable.
6. Improve planning around the need for costly locums, better training, better staff retention.
7. Overuse of prescriptions as treatment, more holistic preventative options.
8. Pressure from government to reduce drug costs.
The list goes on.
An aging population shouldn't be a burden, we should be healthier, hardly anyone smokes anymore, preventative therapy is much more prevalent than even 20 years ago, many treatments are shorter and cheaper than they were etc... These savings could be more than enough to prop up care in later years.
I'm not saying any of the above will happen, but it should,, money is in the system to run the NHS it's just, in many cases, being pissed up the wall, so to claim that it's 'unfundable' is, unfortunately, bollocks.
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