Not even its stoutest defenders may dispute that the NHS is within the throes of disaster. The behemoth is buckling, and never simply due to the extraordinary pressures of winter. It appears in terminal decline.
Report ready lists for surgical procedure. A&E departments overloaded. Ambulances queuing for hours to dump the sick and injured. And the GP system shut to finish collapse.
Some declare these issues might be solved if solely the NHS acquired further funding. However by no credible yardstick may or not it’s mentioned to be starved of money.
This 12 months alone the well being service will obtain £178.5billion – and final month’s Funds promised much more.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Not even its stoutest defenders may dispute that the NHS is within the throes of disaster
The general public fairly expects the cash to be spent properly. Too usually, although, that merely isn’t the case.
A mind-blowing £3billion a 12 months is forked out for locum docs and nurses to deal with extreme employees shortages.
And because the Mail reveals at the moment, a stunning half a billion kilos of that finally ends up with recruitment corporations as charges.
To rub salt into the wound, as frontline NHS employees toiled, staff at one company had been rewarded for a worthwhile 12 months with an all-expenses-paid Caribbean vacation.
Report ready lists for surgical procedure. A&E departments overloaded. Ambulances queuing for hours to dump the sick and injured. Pictured: Ambulances queueing exterior Queen Elizabeth College Hospital in Glasgow on December 23
These ‘locum leeches’ undoubtedly exploit the NHS’s over-reliance on temps to push up their charges.
However the actuality is, well being chiefs are on the mercy of corporations due to their power failures in coaching and recruiting employees.
The Authorities, too, should shoulder some blame for this unsustainable scenario. Creating extra locations at medical faculty could be a begin – though it might take time earlier than new medics are certified.
What’s insupportable is the fixed papering over cracks. The case for root-and-branch reform of the NHS grows stronger on daily basis – together with a method to handle this dismal and harmful staffing disaster.
A shameful betrayal
They confirmed unimaginable braveness and allegiance. So ministers ought to grasp their heads in disgrace at failing to offer sanctuary to 1000’s of Afghans who labored for Britain in that brutal warfare.
Sixteen months after Western forces fled, these heroes – lots of them interpreters – and their households stay stranded in Afghanistan, their lives in each day hazard from Taliban reprisal.
The Overseas Workplace insists it’s processing asylum claims shortly and has relocated 23,000 individuals. However that’s chilly consolation for these nonetheless on the mercy of the fanatics.
For seven years, this paper’s award-winning Betrayal of the Courageous marketing campaign has battled tirelessly to get them to security.
What kind of nation accepts countless Channel migrants to whom it owes nothing, however abandons the buddies who served us?
Perverse policing
So dreadful is the Metropolitan Police’s file on preventing crime and maintaining public order that it has suffered the indignity of being positioned in particular measures.
However as a substitute of focusing all their consideration on reclaiming London’s streets, high officers are squandering greater than £1million a 12 months on ‘woke’ variety and inclusion managers.
That cash may have funded frontline bobbies. May there be any extra damning indictment of Scotland Yard’s twisted priorities than that it places the dictates of political correctness above getting again to the fundamentals of policing?
So dreadful is the Metropolitan Police’s file on preventing crime and maintaining public order that it has suffered the indignity of being positioned in particular measures (file picture)
HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy’s flagship, was meant to be a logo of British army energy.
But since coming into service in 2019, the cursed £3.2billion plane service has spent extra time being repaired after breaking down than at sea.
There actually isn’t any defending this shambolic failure of UK engineering.
Rule the waves? We’d battle to rule a duck pond.
HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy’s flagship, was meant to be a logo of British army energy
