Sajid Javid: Endless tax rises to fund NHS unsustainable The Health Secretary has said the Government cannot keep running back to the taxpayer to fund the NHS as the population ages and the workforce shrinks. Sajid Javid argued that efforts to prevent problems such as obesity, smoking and heart disease could reduce costs. In a speech to the Royal College of Physicians in London on Tuesday , Mr Javid said public services from education to infrastructure would have to be cut if the NHS could not be more efficient and raising health spending faster than economic growth was “just not sustainable”.