16th September 2024

Darzi shows need for more funding
The Darzi report identifies the appalling state of the NHS, but doesn’t state the obvious solution – more funding.  He accuses “consecutive Conservative administrations from 2010 to July 2024 of inflicting “unforgivable” damage on the NHS”.

We can afford the NHS
“When it [the government] needed money to prevent a collapse in the banking system – via the Bank of England’s Quantitative Easing programme – simply created around £445 billion of new money. Money that it had been saying it did not have. And again, during the COVID lockdown, the Government created around £450 billion more to prevent a collapse in household finances when people would otherwise have had no income.”

Child spent 44 days in A&E
This is the state of our health and social care. This article has a pay wall. In effect the child was waiting for a care placement, illustrating the national emergency that is the state of the NHS and social care system.

Primary care in crisis too
Primary care is described by some as at breaking point, as is the rest of the NHS and social care, resulting in higher levels of mortality, illness, pain, and anxiety. However, this crisis was not inevitable, nor the consequence of the pandemic, but the result of successive political decisions, a government made crisis.