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@1894mk2
If by some miracle funding is achieved it will be in place of another service that is currently provided. No one votes for more taxation so it's either sack a few thousand more idle NHS managers who have time to look at LFGSS or do without something that may be viewed as less of a priority.
Actualy things are completely and utterly f*cked nhs funding wise at the moment despite it not being much on the news. Various mechanisms for rationing are having a catastrophic effect on waiting times, eligability for procedures and service availability.
Given this it's understandable that people who are generally fitter and better (because of their sport) get less service than the 80year old who is curently being denied a cataract operation until she is near blind or dead http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9470797/Cataract-patients-being-wrongly-denied-eye-surgery.html and that's without the 33% increase in long waits for A&E beds etc etc.
What we really need to do is increase the number of long distance driving, heavy drinking smokers who drop dead without chronic disease.
ps I'll sign