Sajid Javid joins calls to replace ‘unfit’ NHS with insurance model
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Sajid Javid joins calls to replace ‘unfit’ NHS with insurance model

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Monday 14 July 2025 10:01 pm|Updated:Monday 14 July 2025 5:38 pmThe NHS should no longer be taxpayer-funded, a Sajid Javid-backed paper has argued. Former health secretary Sajid Javid has joined calls for a major overhaul of the National Health Service (NHS) that would see it replaced by a universal social insurance-based model. Javid said a “serious conversation with taxpayers” about how to fund the institution was “long overdue,” throwing his weight behind a paper by Policy Exchange which warned the NHS was “structured in a way that guarantees permanent crisis.” The Labour government has pumped extra cash into the NHS as part of a ten-year strategy to reform the system as the budget for the Department for Health and Social Care will increase by 2.8 per cent in real terms in the next three years. But leading academics...
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