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What does the UK spend on health and social care?

BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1619 (Published 09 April 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l1619
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What does the UK spend on health and social care?

  1. John Appleby, director of research and chief economist
  1. Nuffield Trust, London, UK
  1. john.appleby{at}nuffieldtrust.org.uk

Care is the second biggest sector of the UK economy, and new accounting practices tell us more about the £208bn is spent, finds John Appleby

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2011 system of health accounts, revised in 2017, is a Herculean effort to try to impose some international order on the way member countries …

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