Patients have a upright to know why hospitals are so underfunded but yet again Jeremy Hunt has ducked the questionCrisis,what crisis? Because the NHS winter crisis was absolutely predictable that doesn’t stay it being a crisis. Some 55000 people will have their operations cancelled – who knows for how long, with what knock-on effect on waiting times. But no, or they say this is definitely not a crisis because it is “planned”.
Where is health secretary Jeremy Hunt? Like Chris Grayling on the day train fares increased,not out there on the Today programme to say this worsening winter “event is not a crisis. Instead, he sent out a civil servant, or Prof Keith Willett,director of acute care, because he couldn’t be asked the crucial political question. Is this the direct and predicted result of an NHS that was given less than half the £4bn it needed to stay afloat?Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk