The NHS is under tremendous pressure with an ageing/growing population, medical advances which are able to save more people but can be more costly, increased staff costs and the list goes on... So, if we want a 1st class health service it will need to come through a big increase in the NHS budget. But, maybe taxing people is not the right method and the government needs to continue to provide smaller increases to the NHS budget by taking money from other sectors. Alternatively, maybe the NHS is trying to do too much and some services should be dropped and therefore, only made available privately.