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schema:url	http://fullfact.org/health/rmt-nhs-test-trace-ppe/
schema:text	We could fund the NHS for years, give every low-paid worker in Britain an above inflation pay rise and close every food bank in the UK just from the money you wasted on PPE and track and trace! In a widely shared tweet, which has since been shared on Facebook, the RMT union exaggerated the amount of money “wasted on PPE and track and trace” claiming it could pay for the NHS for years. The tweet was a reply to the former health secretary Matt Hancock, who had said that the current rail strikes would cause disruption to the NHS. In 2020/21 the UK government spent £223 billion on health and social care in total. In the year prior to the pandemic it spent £171 billion, of which £124 billion was spent out of the NHS England budget alone. So funding the NHS “for years” would cost hundreds of billions of pounds, before we even consider the cost of pay rises for low-paid workers, which potentially amounts to more than a million people depending on how you define “low pay”, or the cost of closing food banks, which the RMT claimed could also be paid for out of money “wasted on PPE and track and trace”. (We’re not sure how much money would be spent on “closing food banks”, or exactly what the RMT means by this, but since the Trussell Trust alone gave out more than two million food parcels last year, replacing this support would probably cost a significant amount.) On the other hand, the amount of money spent so far on the entire NHS Test and Trace programme (most of which was spent on testing) has been just under £30 billion, based on the £13.5 billion spent in its first year and the roughly £15 billion that it is expected to have spent in its second. The total value of the government’s pandemic PPE contracts was £13.1 billion, according to a report from the National Audit Office in March 2022. Some of this money was spent on PPE that could not be used, but it is not yet clear how much. These are certainly large sums of money, but even if we assume that every pound spent on PPE and Test and Trace was “wasted”, it would still amount to much less than the spending described by the RMT. Full Fact has contacted the RMT for comment, but had not received a response at the time of publication. Image courtesy of Ömer Yıldız
schema:mentions	The Trussell Trust Swedish National Audit Office Food bank NHS England Matt Hancock Personal protective equipment Pound sterling Inflation Test cricket National Health Service Facebook dbpedia:Yıldız,_Beşiktaş National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Full Fact Virtual economy dbpedia:COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom
schema:reviewRating	This is not true. The total amount spent by the government on PPE and NHS Test and Trace during the pandemic was less than one year of NHS funding.
schema:author	full-fact
schema:datePublished	2022-06-22 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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