NHS faces ‘worst crisis in its history’, experts warn on service’s 75th anniversary
The stark warning was made in a letter sent to Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Ed Davey by the Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund.
The stark warning was made in a letter sent to Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Ed Davey by the Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund.
‘Our demands include safe staffing and fair pay for NHS workers, an end to outsourcing as divisive and wasteful, and an immediate injection of capital funding to help start repairing the damage of 13 years of Conservative neglect.’
Over half (51 per cent) of respondents were dissatisfied with the NHS, the highest proportion since the survey began.
“Fund us properly, make nursing, and health and social care generally, a good profession that is well-paid, with good working conditions.”
“Charging patients for missed appointments would not only undermine the essential trust between doctor and patient, but ultimately threaten the fundamental principle that the NHS delivers free care at the point of need, for all.”
“24 hours in A&E used to be a TV programme,” he said. “Now it’s the Government’s policy”.
‘For the first time ever, more that 50% of an important NHS funded service – hip and knee replacements – are being paid for privately rather than delivered by the NHS.’
One thinks it ‘guarantees the total victory of socialism in Britain’.
Is the health secretary deliberately pushing the NHS to breaking point?
The government’s consistently huge spends on NHS reform and the Trident programme indicate dubious priorities.