{
  "id": 15707446,
  "title": "Public support for founding principles of NHS is falling across UK population",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/public-support-for-founding-principles-of-nhs-is-falling-across-uk",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-20T05:00:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/20/public-support-founding-principles-nhs-falling-across-uk-population"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Rise in economic hardship and changes in attitudes towards migration could explain drop in support, experts say Public support for the NHS’s founding principles – that it is free to use, available to everyone and tax-funded – has fallen over the last five years, research has shown. Backing for all three pillars dropped between 2021 and 2025 across the UK population, except for a small rise in…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}