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Is the NHS in crisis - and does it need urgent reform?
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17/03/2025
Over 10,000 jobs could go as Labour plans to focus more on front line services in the health service.
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There is no doubt that the NHS is in a dreadful state. We're talking about a
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sector, if you want to call it that, or an organisation that is in sort of
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control of everyone's health. Now of course there's lots of complexities
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associated with that and indeed we're having sort of an ageing population so
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the sort of the incidence of ill health that affect people are
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increasing. Therefore of course there's a lot to sort of to take on
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board. This is a multi-billion pound organisation, north of sort of
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140 billion a year, so it's a major sort of drain on the sort of the public
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finances, for good reason, but there is no doubt about the fact that the
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14 years of the sort of the previous Conservative government starved of
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resources, although they would claim that they put money into it. But hey, you
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know, this is an organisation that undoubtedly needs far more money putting
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into it. But of course we had an election last year. It was, if you
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like, an elephant in the room. You know, did we want to pay more? Well, we were
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never asked the question for the NHS. I think people would agree to it, but of
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course they have to sort of see a vast improvement to sort of make it worth the
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while. Which brings us to the here and now. NHS England was created by the
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Conservatives in 2012 and it seemed to be, if you like, a bureaucratic over-society.
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It was, if you like, to try and sort of push that responsibility out so of course
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government did not have direct control. Clearly the Labour government believe
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that they can make the sort of the changes they need to, which I believe
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will have to be pretty radical and indeed will have to be sort of pretty
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rapid because of course people want to see, you know, to use that as a word
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again, an improvement. They're able to get access to the services with
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greater sort of immediacy than is the case now because of course if Labour have
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any hope of winning the next election, improving the NHS is going to be one of
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those manifesto promises that they made last July. Well, as you can imagine, while
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Labour argues that reform is necessary, in response Conservative health
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spokesperson Dr Caroline Johnson has criticised the Labour Party's approach
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arguing that the proposed reforms lack clarity and could lead to further
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instability within the NHS. She emphasised the need for a comprehensive
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plan that addresses current challenges without causing additional disruption to
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health care services. And of course the reality is it all comes down to hard
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cash and of course at the moment we're in a sort of period, if you like, of
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austerity. You know, there is the sort of latest news that the economy sort of
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shrunk in January so less money going into the system. This government have
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inheritors of, you know, a big set of problems and the NHS is one of the
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biggest.
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