And evidence, such as rising numbers of disability-benefit claimants, suggests there are more ill patients needing complex care.
There were also more first cancer hospital outpatient appointments - but fewer overall and the number of patients treated from the waiting list, currently 7.2 million in England, was down 11%. "The real risk, almost three years on from the start of the pandemic, is that the Covid hit to NHS performance is not time-limited.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "As the IFS report acknowledges, Covid had a significant impact on the NHS, and we are focused on delivering the biggest catch-up programme in health history".
How chronic underfunding by the Tories and Brexit has dealt the NHS a nasty blow so they struggle to deal with the aftermath of a global pandemic
You mis-spelled 'strategic underfunding' by a government wishing to install a private health system in which they are all personally invested.
So it’s going to be privatised and we become a 5th world version of America, maybe if we charged anyone not born here for treatment it would have been a more viable and prosperous business, offering free treatment to the world is not a viable business strategy!
12 years of wilful and deliberate neglect by Tory governments.
The destruction of the NHS is meant to make it cheaper for Tory cronies to buy and the eventual control by the American capital system.
😂 that's not a problem it's easy to solve. The 8% nurses = those nurses who were in uni and seconded to hospitals. Same with doctors and consultants, the higher costs come from those departments that were sold off over that last 20 years, they are know charging more for less
No the Conservative party has
It was not COVID it the government
It’s dealt the whole World a lasting blow. Why does any individual, organisation or institute think they’ve had it worse than any other?
Suggested alternative....how the Conservatives broke the NHS 🤨
Should that not say Tories?
Correction: How 12 years of government underfunding dealt a blow to NHS.
Why Can’t People see this was all pre-planned by the tories 🤷🏻♂️ now your NHS ain’t Working we’re gonna privatise it !
Covid/Tory mismanagement, sure. Let's sell it so someone can make a big profit from citizen's misfortune.
Is this the same covid which had all the doctors and nurses making intricately choreographed tiktok dance routines? We've already paid for that with weekly applause.
The answer has and always will be the Tories and their maggot supporters.
Before Covid People dying in A&E corridors 17000 beds cut 106,000 staff short 43000 nurses short 11000 doctors short EU staff driven away Record waiting times Social care in crisis GP system broken While Tories sent £100billion in public money to private, for profit non-NHS care
*How the Torys have used COVID as an excuse to give the NHS a lasting blow to help them sell it and profit
Covid Surely Shome mistake here. Johnson’s Tory BBC as unreliable as the Rest of the Tory Press
Not COVID but the response to it supported by every party and MSM.
Yawn...zzzzz the poor NHS again FFS
Actually it's the Government
Covid is a virus. It doesn’t make decisions. Crazy, illiberal, dystopian decisions by idiot politicians, cheered on by idiots in other parties, caused this. It was an act of national flagellation and politicians should be in jail for the part they played.
That headline should actually read- 'How the Tory party dealt a lasting blow to the NHS' But as you're just another arm of the Tory propaganda machine the truth will be kept hidden. ToryBBC ToryCostOfGreedCrisis ToryCriminals NHSPrivatisation NHSWorkersNeedAPayrise
Private companies siphoning off money for shareholders and understaffing. If you checked all the contracts they break it would almost certainly be all of them but the Tories and Briefcase Labour take funding from these parasitic companies so no investigation will happen.
Translation: How the symbiotic relationship between The BBC and the Government dealt the NHS a lasting blow
Dear BBCHughPym you haven't ONCE stood up for the NHS by challenging Privatisation!!! Why not
This is absolute nonsense! - a properly funded & supported NHS was equal to Covid. You should tell the truth - outsourcing, privatisation, demonisation, closing of beds, PFI & neglected Social Care are the problem! BBCSwitchOff
COVID has actually dealt the NHS less of a blow than 12 years of constant undermining by Conservatives - shire Tories will soon be whingeing about their escalating health insurance payments while all that public money keeps flying offshore.
I think mean Tory mismanagement of Covid, theft of funds via PPE scandals and continued privatisation of the NHS has dealt it a lasting blow
Correction! “how the mismanagement of Covid by BorisJohnson and MattHancock has avoidably killed 200,000 people and our beloved NHS” 😤
We know.
Not covid Conservatives - not satisfied with PPE profiteering they want you to pay vastly inflated costs to their new companies so that they live in luxury whilst we die. .DefundtheBBC
Good to see the Ministry of enlightenment doing it's job of protecting the regime again.
How the *Tories* have, you mean.
Translation: how the hysterical, anti-scientific response to Covid, cheerled by politicians and celebrities of all stripes, has dealt the NHS a lasting blow.
Has Covid dealt the NHS a lasting blow? No. The Tory Government has. Next question?
Don't you mean vaccine injuries?
No the tories have, and are in the process of delivering, the blow.
Covid? What of the decades of NHS underfunding by the governments.
It wasn't Covid but the Tories.
The Tories have gave them the lasting blow
Thanks China
pretty sure it was the 12 years of Tory underfunding
The Tories. Not covid.
Lockdown and the restrictions were a monumental failure - pushed by the NHS and “experts” they have caused far more harm long term than the so called “good” they did - these “experts” have never once apologised for their failed plan
COVID clearly has had an impact in ongoing terms. But trends of complexities of care and staff shortages were around long before Covid and successive Secs of State did little about it. Instead they pushed for beds to be taken out of use and that now compounds the problem.
teh tories infesting the bbc with right wing political and news editors has destroyed the organisation
Nah…we got lockdown for 2.5 years to save the nhs so it has to be in great shape now
'how the tories have dealt the NHS a lasting blow' yet again fixing BBC news headlines
As far as Covid goes, the Tory government is to blame for its rash decision to drop Covid mitigation measures. This encouraged people to stop bring careful and increased Covid spread.
You misspelled '12 years of Tory vandalism'
Stop using 5 aprons and gloves for the same patient That should save a few million The NHS is not under funded, it is waste
You misspelled How 'Tories have'....