Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Director of the National Problem gaming Clinic (NPGC), and Dr. Matt Gaskell, Clinical Lead for the NHS Northern Gambling Service, both spoke in favour of a tax on gaming companies. An independent health board would be in charge of monitoring the money spent.

For the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank, Bowden-Jones and Gaskell wrote that gambling businesses should be charged a "statutory levy" and that a new board called the Joint Advisory tax Board should be made.

They said that this board should be run by the Department of Health and Social Care and not the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS). They said that the DCMS had turned down many requests from different groups to put in place a statutory fee.

In fact, this was only one complaint about the way things are now in Britain. Bowden-Jones and Gaskell wrote, "The current voluntary system doesn't integrate NHS services, funding decisions aren't consistent, there isn't an independent evaluation of long-term effects or regulation through the Care Quality Commission, and research councils don't coordinate their oversight of research into harm. Serious questions have been raised about how independent this voluntary system is from the gambling industry."

Their suggestions come as the government gets ready to release a long-awaited review of Britain's gambling rules. Different parties have already said they support or oppose a statutory levy.

One person who wants this to happen is Dr. James Noyes, who is a Senior Fellow at the SMF and co-author of the study.

"The Gambling Act Review White Paper is a one-of-a-kind chance to fix this broken system and put harm prevention and treatment where they belong: under the lead of the Department of Health and Social Care and funded through a proper legal framework," he said.