here's ben chu. has been rising for decades.ly after the nhs in today's money. health spending will continue to grow, citing those factors that have driven up spending until now — an ageing population and more demand from around 9% today to 14.5% in 50 years�* time, now, many politicians argue it's important for the nhs to deliver high levels of productivity, in other words, to spend money more so how are things but measured outputs, things like operations completed productivity was still around 19% lower than it was five years however, it should be said, other estimates of health a corner might have been turned in the delivery of health services after the shock of the pandemic. productivity in the health sector is an important objective, and the extent to which it's delivered will play an important victoria has more on the state of the nhs on newsnight over on bbc two shortly. after a ll after all �* the after all �*the coverage, afterall �*the coverage, inside the nhs today, who better to ask the nhs today—ywho'betterto ask, e