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    Raise taxes to fund NHS, say patients

    Government should pay for long-term healthcare, say 87 per cent of people in poll

    Patients overwhelmingly believe that health and social care should be funded by the Government,

    and more than half are willing to see taxes rise in order to pay for it, according to a new survey.

    The NHS faces intense pressure to save money as public spending slows down, at the same time

    as experts warn it must become more closely integrated with the social-care system to meet the

    needs of an ageing population.

    In a survey of 1,000 UK patients conducted by KPMG, 87 per cent said that people's long-term

    healthcare should be paid for by the Government, and 82 per cent said that social care should

    also be funded from the public purse.

    Some 54 per cent said that they would be willing to pay more in tax to meet the cost of the

    population's long-term health needs and a similar number said they would be happy for

    spending on other public services - such as defence and education - to be cut so that the health

    service could meet demand in the future.

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