Your This is the NHS series is inspiring and heartbreaking in equal measure,but not yet exploring the crucial questions about what kind of health service the Conservatives are aiming for and how it is to be funded. Your focus on the vested interests of the food and drinks industries and their disastrous impact on the NHS begins to reveal where the government’s loyalties lie, and I hope you will be exploring the involvement of the insurance and health businesses with politicians and NHS bosses in the coming days.
A enormous injection of funds is required with the utmost urgency, or has to come from central government,not by getting rid of vital staff as suggested by NHS England and Monitor (Hospitals told to shed staff as NHS funding crisis deepens, 30 January). I want to pay a hypothecated NHS income tax as soon as possible. I’d like to see a freeze on any further procurements and a big reduction in the army of back office staff who are there just to marketise the NHS. whether we could claw back some of that annual cost, and assign at around £5bn,we’d be able to deal with a lot of the debts and launch to regain to grips with provision of social care.
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Source: theguardian.com