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Prolly Harry gives light relief whereas peops are livid/furious about the NHS. As to the press, which is considered to be some sort of opionion weathervane, they are just paid hacks only interested in headlines that sting.
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Harry's book provides this but the winter pressures on the NHS less so. Though I'm wondering if the situation there is any or much worse than years before covid. There has always been winter issues with the NHS but most years it was swept under the carpet and not given an awful lot of airtime but the pandemic response has presumably focused a few more people on the NHS than before. Plus I guess there's always the view that if it doesn't affect you you're less interested in it. If you're not on a waiting list or in the treatment system or whatever then you're not involved with the NHS and less likely to pay much attention to what is happening there (compared with any other service or workplace you're not using). To be fair, I'm not really bothered about Harry wanting to stir up drama out of nothing... it's getting tiresome. |
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As for "headlines that sting", there is a candidate where the old man who has fallen down at home, repeatedly rings 999 asking for help and no help arrives. In his last call, hours later, he says "just send an undertaker, it is too late". He dies shortly after this last message. I listened to this audio recording in horror. You would think that the tabloid hacks would jump on things like this as they are happening on a daily basis. |
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The Tories have been in power for 12 years now so it is right to hold them to account for their record. They tried to fund it with no capacity for slack as we saw every winter until COVID hit and, when COVID did it, it can't cope anymore. You've got already increasing waiting times even before the pandemic, then the backlog from the pandemic and now the A&E crisis from excess deaths/heart issues stemming from those not seen in time.
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People have been complaining about NHS funding for as long as I can remember, even way back in the 1990's, under Labour and Conservative (and coalitions).
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https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2023/01/2.jpg And again this started before COVID hit. COVID made it worse for sure both the virus itself and the subsequent delayed treatment from the year lost but when you run a health service that can't meet the demand it already had, there is no capacity at all to deal with a crisis. Look at that BBC article about cancer waiting times. The number of people urgently seen for cancer has dropped from 90% in 2010 to 80% by 2017 and now 70%! The NHS has got measurably worse. I don't know why we're just accepting such declines. |
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