What a shitty article. No mention of the cuts to the NHS by the tories and the effect that had on its ability to serve the public but they make it seem like this is a side effect of the covid vaccines? What the actual fuck.
You can pedantically argue whether this is a "cut" or not, but that's not the issue. Nor is the issue how much the NHS asks for. The issue is there is less money per health-care-incident to provide care.
> this is likely to have been driven in part by activities in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, such as testing and tracing services and the implementation of the vaccination programme.
Yes, if we include the many billions spent on faulty test and trace and broken PPE -the corrupt spending that went to pals of the Tory party- we see an increase in health spending.
Guess what happens to the amount of health care funding if you ignore the corrupt spend on PPE?
According to Statista:
Bed capacity is significantly lower than at the turn of the century, but more damage was done there by Labour than the Tories [1].
The numbers of nurses has steadily increased in the last twenty years under both Labour and the Tories [2].
So if there are many more nurses per bed than there were twenty years ago, why is patient safety one of the issues they are currently in dispute with the government over?
I don't know the answer to this, but I think we need to know. It is, like teachers, that nurses are spending so much time on non-clinical bureaucracy that the don't have time to nurse?
[1] - https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4302/M6SgVh.png
[2] - https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/7041/40e6JF.png