UK health service sets out two-year recovery plan for emergency care

The NHS was not designed for how the UK has changed since its inception.

I think inevitably it will cease to be a 100% tax funded service in the near future.

Something more like the Japanese model would be better, where the patient pays both from their taxes and also a % at the point of sale, depending on age and/or means.

I fear a more American system might be brought in through the back door, however. The Tories want to be able to offer juicy contracts to their mates in healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

These plans are just more hot air. The government has delayed, again, it’s workforce plan that should have been published last year. The NHS has massive staff shortages, without staff these new ambulances can’t be used, these hospitals from home need at least double the current community nursing workforce. It’s like those Nightingale hospitals they wasted millions on during covid, white elephants that were great for news headlines but ultimately pointless as they couldn’t be staffed.

It is the management structure that needs reform restructuring.

Stale internal market, inefficient from conception. costly layers of middle management.

A refusal to change at grass roots levels.

Too much money is spent on management.

Become a drug addict, alcoholic or eat until you are too fat to walk? Don't worry the tax payer and NHS will bail you out. Get drunk start a fight, need stitches and treatment for broken bones? No problem we got you covered. Pregnant and from a developing country? Come on in, you should pay but it's racist to ask if you a UK citizen so its all on the tax payer.

quote: more elderly and vulnerable patients would be treated at home to avoid unnecessary trips to hospital.

This is a double-edged sword, as the elderly and vulnerable will now be targeted by distraction burglars posing as NHS staff.

The biggest problem is bed blocking, caused by people unable to return home, as too few care staff are available, post-Brexit.

The Tories will take the opportunity to outsource services to their mates, allowing public money to fill private pockets, regardless of the quality of care offered. They have about a year left to fill their boots and feather their own beds in the private sector, before their party is flushed out of existence at the next election.