The NHS is one of this country’s proudest achievements. We wish to protect and retain its founding principles of universality, comprehensive, free at the point of need and not based on the ability to pay.
By creating a publicly-owned, not-for-profit top-up fund which enables some treatment to be diverted via that service, we want to ease the pressure on the NHS and the staff who work incredibly hard to look after us.
We want to deliver a method of increasing funding that doesn’t involve raising taxes, as we recognise the difficulties this presents – for individuals, business, Government.
We will incorporate proactive, personalised health and wellbeing support as a core component of the service, in support of the NHS’s 'whole population health' and prevention ambitions.
Our vision is that over time, paying into the health top-up fund becomes an established feature of life for many of us. We maintain what we value about the NHS but deliver an expanded, government-owned health and care funding system, by enabling individuals to make additional provision for dealing with health and care challenges they may encounter at some stage in their life.
“Everyone knows that the extra money is barely enough to maintain current standards, let alone transform services”
— NHS England insider, December 2018
“Funding the NHS only from general taxation is becoming more and more problematic.”
