Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain campaigns against changes to UK institutions.
 In 2017 the UK spent 2,989 per person on healthcare, around the median for members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Following a period of widespread economic slowdown and industrial strife in the 1970s, the Conservative government of the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher initiated a radical policy of monetarism, deregulation, particularly of the financial sector (for example, the Big Bang in 1986) and labour markets, the sale of state-owned companies (privatisation), and the withdrawal of subsidies to others

