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The closure of the National Health Service for England, and not for other parts of Britain such as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which have exclusive competences based on devolution, was an unexpected announcement, which Prime Minister Starmer describes as a necessary measure, although this has been compared to similar cuts that Elon Musk is making in America in the administration.
A British government spokesman says that Artificial Intelligence and digitalisation will free up around £45 billion that can be spent on other health sectors. It is thought that around 15,300 jobs and 3,300 officials in government health departments will be cut. In total, the entire British National Health Service is thought to employ around 1.365 million people and has a budget of more than £190 billion and 300 million each year.
This health service was created on 5 July 1948 after the Second World War by the Labour government of the time and is the second largest health service in the world after that of Brazil. This health service is mainly funded by the government and tax revenues and a small part by contributions provided by National Insurance. It is a free service at the time of its provision to all Britons. The closure of the National Health Service for England is expected to take around two years to complete, and the government justifies this measure as the need to fulfill an election promise to shorten the waiting list for patients. The opposition has supported this measure.
There have also been attempts in the past by the Conservatives to privatise this service, which for the British is sacred as a public institution and with electoral consequences for any government, of the day, if it attempts to privatise or weaken it. Labour say that these reforms are the most profound in the area of decentralising powers in the history of the British Health Service, which really suffers from a visible managerial bureaucracy, like many public institutions, otherwise from private ones, although funds have never been lacking in this sector.
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