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Would you be prepared to pay more tax to fund the NHS?

MPs are warning that the NHS is in “survival mode”, with hospitals and community health trusts set to go £900 million over budget this year.

A cross-party group of 98 MPs have written to Prime Minister Theresa May, asking her to establish a parliamentary commission to see whether there should be a special NHS tax.

For the first time in more than a decade, a majority of Britons say that they are personally willing to pay more to increase spending, according to the respected British Social Attitudes survey.

They are increasingly dissatisfied with the state of the NHS, with almost three times as many saying that it has got worse as say it has improved, a gap not recorded since the late 1990s.

With an ageing populations and funds not able to meet the NHS costs, what are your views? Should we pay more tax to fund the struggling NHS?

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