NHS bosses need to start offering taxpayers value for their hard-earned money, critics pleaded today in the face of damning data showing the system is performing worse for patients than it was a decade ago.
Yesterday it was revealed the Government’s spending on health has risen by nearly 40 per cent since 2010, despite other crucial parts of the country’s infrastructure getting as little as 3 per cent extra over the same time-frame.
One Conservative thinktank fears the NHS will