Medicine: Ricciardi, increase funding for the NHS - University News. "The disturbing aspect of the solutions recently proposed to address the enormous shortages of medical personnel in the National Health Service is that, after the enormous increase in specialization contracts in the years of the Conte 2 and Draghi governments (finally!), they converge solely on increasing the number of graduating in Medicine" This was said at a hearing in the Culture Committee of the Senate on the issue of limited numbers in Medicine.