
Image: Surprise! The UK has discovered it has some older people.
Whenever NHS funding is debated – as it will be this afternoon when health secretary Jeremy Hunt and NHS boss Simon Stevens appear before the Health Select Committee - the first question asked is “where is the money coming from”? That seems to be the only NHS question new Prime Minister Theresa May is interested in – and it is rumoured she has already made it clear the answer is “not from government”.
“Where is the money coming from” is an understandable and obvious question to ask - but it is also the wrong one.