“The surgeon and former Labour health minister found England had spent almost £37bn less than peer countries on health assets and infrastructure since the 2010s. Twenty per cent of the NHS estate predates the founding of the service more than 75 years ago, and some of NUH’s facilities date back to the Victorian era .” In 2022 healthcare expenditure in Germany and France was equivalent to 12.6% and 11.9%, respectively. In 2023, the UK spent 8.9% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on public healthcare. This is a decrease from 2020 and 2021, when the UK spent 10.1% of its GDP on healthcare.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51