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How to cure what ails the NHS

18 December 2021

9:00 AM

18 December 2021

9:00 AM

Wrong cure

Sir: In referring to the UK as the highest-spending European nation in healthcare proportionate to GDP (‘Hospital pass’, 4 December), Kate Andrews paints an exaggerated picture which is based upon additional expenditure in the NHS during the Covid pandemic, partly accounted for by £38 billion spent on test and trace.

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