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Why is healthcare inflation greater than general inflation?

By Anita Charlesworth.

In the UK, spending on health care has increased by four per cent per year, since the NHS was founded 65 years ago. In this article, Anita Charlesworth, Chief Economist, Nuffield Trust, describes why inflation in health care costs has been greater in real terms than the general inflation.

Website: http://hsr.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/15/1355819614531940.full.pdf