Frances Reid, 55, said she was left in"excruciating" pain waiting for her hip replacement.
"The final weeks were really difficult. I was waking up six, seven times a night and had to use walking sticks to get around.Prof Derek Alderson, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said the impact on people like Frances could be"devastating". In a joint letter with the charity Versus Arthritis to party leaders, the RCS has urged ministers to keep the 18-week target for routine treatment. NHS England is exploring new ways of measuring performance for that target and also the A&E one.Given the level of funding provided to the health service in England over the past decade, it is no surprise performance has declined.When the coalition came to power in 2010 the health service was given small rises of about 1% a year.
Labour pins the blame on the Tories, accusing them of effectively imposing cuts to the health service.
BBCPolitics Of course 🤔 it's all the Top nobs management that abuse the NHS. Not the workers BRING BACK MATRONS they was like gods and they knew how to run the NHS
The NHS will never get back on track. Too much waste and inefficiency, too many useless 'managers', too much union interference and too many people in this small country. Those things will never be dealt with.
Throwing oodles of cash at something that is fundamentally broken, bloated, full of middle managers and obscene waste is not the answer. Until politicians from all sides agree to a root and branch restructure, it will continue to decline - whoever is in charge of it.
No sh*t Sherlock. I’ll let you into a little secret. Throwing more money at it isn’t going to help either.
BBCPolitics 💤💤😴 only the conservatives can deliver
BBCPolitics We need to see the NHS as a necessary mode of human well-being....targets are for archers and riflemen...
BBCPolitics 71 years old and a long way to go...
50 years of destruction wont get fixed overnite
No shit Sherlock
Step 1) Deport all illegals Step 2) Enforce border controls Step 3) Proof of nationality for foreign born patients Step 4) Ban elective surgery and procedures on NHS Step 5) Cut treatment for chronically obese,alcoholics,drug users That would be a start at least.
ToryFibs The NHS was doing just fine before the Tories began cutting it up. Funny that.
And, again, too proud to say a word about how monies are wasted in the NHS, throughout inefficiency... You can plan to inject whichever amount of pounds and people in it: you won’t solve problems without working out real quality and performance issues first...
just needs another £680 billion a year huh?
ToryFibs Even in an article pointing out the issues of missed targets the BBC manages to twist it round to find a criticism of Labour - Tories may have promised more money, but then came the Health and Social Care act - cue wholesale destruction 😱 NeverTrustATory
NHS has been around for decades n it is always beset with staffing b budget cuts Long waiting times Shortages of beds Imagine Warren is pushing Medicare for all inUS it would be a mammoth job n it'd take a decade
The NHS will ALWAYS be short of money. Until the final day when the last penny drops. Universal Heath care for ills for all the people in the UK and a good many not from the UK paid by tax is unaffordable in the long term.
We train 5000 college kids...17-21 year old..every year for 5 years...25000 trained staff..doctors,surgeons,...they do 3 years medical school,2 years on the job...their training paid for by the country ...God!!!..il even run the project it's that simple
ToryFibs Thank the Tories for that. GetTheToriesOut
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No shit.
And will eventually eat itself
It’s not a destination. Improvement is an on going process and evolutionary.
The destruction of the NHS started with Tony Blair in 1997 and continued through successive Tory governments.
That’s in part because it’s been through constant reorganisation since 2012 - and no doubt will be again with next change of Government...
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