Ringfence 10% of UK health spending for preventive measures, report urges
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Governments should set aside 10% of health spending for preventive and public measures such as cycle lanes and anti-obesity strategies, a thinktank has said, warning that political short-termism over health is making the UK increasingly ill and unequal.The report by the Tony Blair Institute argues that a centralised NHS model almost entirely focused on treating sickness rather than on wider objectives is not only harming people's health but hampering the economy, with more than 2.5 million people out of the labour market because of long-term ailments.
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