(Not my opinion - this is all from the Financial Times).
The UK spent 20% less (per person) on health than similar European countries over the past decade, according to research showing NHS has been "consistently starved of funding" (while the Conservatives have been in power).
That's how the Financial Times put it (17 November 2022).
"The UK’s total healthcare budget was £187bn per year, on average, between 2010 and 2019. It would have needed to have spent £227bn to match the average across the EU14 over the pre-pandemic decade."
The other countries' much greater public funding of healthcare meant they were "able to benefit from years of greater investment when the pandemic struck. In Germany, for example, a larger number of beds and higher staffing ratios than in the NHS helped to ensure the crisis did not disrupt other healthcare." Financial Times
Hope this isn't too much, given recent discussion. It is brilliant, brand new, highly topical and important, and he sums up my views better than I could. Counterviews welcome as always.