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Paying for the NHS

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Paying for the NHS

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CHAPTER 2

Foreword from Future Foundation

Foreword from Future Foundation Compared to our ancestors we live in an age of plenty. We earn more, work less and have many more options open to us. We are exposed to a huge amount of advice on how to live well, what to eat and how to exercise.

At the same time waist-lines are expanding rapidly and one in four of us is clinically obese. In many ways we are an unhealthy nation.

At a time of political change and enormous economic pressures we have reached a critical stage in how we manage the health of the nation. The NHS remains a revered national institution but demands from an ageing population are forcing some uncomfortable decisions.

This latest report on behalf of Friends Provident examines these prospects for health and well-being in 2020. To do this, we conducted research among 1,000 nationally representative people. We then ran two focus groups to understand the concerns of citizens in more detail.

In addition, we have interviewed several experts and formed a Delphi Panel of an additional four experts and practitioners who have given us their forthright opinions. We asked this panel several questions in order to aggregate their views.

The members of the Delphi Panel are:

Dr Ayan Panja, GP, author and broadcaster

Dr Daniel Rutherford, Private General Medical Practitioner

Hayley Willacy, National Voices

Jeremy Taylor, GP

Robert Rulach, Senior Partner in a general practice

The experts we individually interviewed for this report are:

Niall Dickson, Chief Executive and Registrar, General Medical Council

Dr Amit Bhargava, GP, NHS Alliance

Dr Patricia Macnair, Medical practitioner, journalist and broadcaster

Dr Sarah Brewer, Health writer and former HFMA Health Journalist of the Year

Dr Jonty Heaversedge, GP and Broadcaster

Andrew McCulloch, Chief Executive, Mental Health Foundation

Andrew McCulloch, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, would like to state that the views he expresses here are his own and not necessarily those of the Mental Health Foundation.

Barry Clark, The Future Foundation
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