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 "id": "healthcare-expenditure-uk",
 "title": "Healthcare spending, UK",
 "category": "health",
 "summary": "Current healthcare expenditure in the UK each year since 1997, in all and by who pays for it: government, voluntary health insurance, non-profit institutions, employers and households out of pocket, in £ million at current prices, from the ONS's UK Health Accounts.",
 "unit": "gbp_m",
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 "status": "Official statistics",
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   "2003": 182419.0,
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   "2008": 224781.0,
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   "2022": 323335.0,
   "2023": 320030.0,
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  "label": "Total current healthcare expenditure",
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  "period": "2025",
  "note": "£280,444 million of it government-financed"
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