Can't really congratulate her for this considering she continued to starve the NHS for the past 2 years after Cameron started it. Still, it's good that it's finally happening.
There has to be something said about the ability to forgive a politician, people get so set in their ways about a person and it just becomes bad mouthing, if forgiveness is to exist in society then we should be willing to at least applaud someone when they've done a good deed, I mean I understand there is needs to be a proportional amount of good and bad done and probably more good than bad for a politician but we should at least be willing to give someone a chance to actually show they can change.
Funding for the NHS has actually increased in the last 20 years almost as much as it did in the 40 years before that, the big problem is that around 1990 the budget for the NHS to increase as a percentage of the total national income from around 6 percent up 1-3% a year in addition to everything costing more but the working populace making less, this in addition to the budget being influenced by corporations and a lot of the supply chains and logistics being privatized and mismanaged. More money is a temporary fix, what needs to happen is an audit. 87 percent of people are treated,discharged, admitted, within four hours of their arrival at the A&E down from 98%!! in 2008. The money isn't being spent wisely.
This sounds like a tremendous figure, but I'm cautious what the catch is, if any.
make that 350 million per week and we'll talk.
This is actually less than what is happening. 380 million per week this is.
Not sure it makes up for effectively lying about increasing spending since Cameron came in.
this is good but the NHS needs more than money after how the Tories have treated it’s staff and services the past 8 years.
The 'Brexit dividend' PR spin is bullshit. Brexit is costing us a fortune and a hard Brexit would result in a huge crisis. But if the money comes anyway in the meantime, it's still a positive - and probably a move mostly to stave off Labour-LD growth in electoral share.
I can't make any sense of what you're saying here
What a joke.
"I can tell you that what I'm announcing will mean that in 2023-24 there will be about £600m a week, more in cash, going into the NHS."
Misleading as fuck, that's the total amount of funding per week - not the addition.
"That will be through the Brexit dividend. The fact that we're no longer sending vast amounts of money every year to the EU once we leave the EU."
There is no Brexit dividend.
It's also still far below what's needed (estimated >5% over the next 50 years) at 3.4%.
87 percent of people are treated,discharged, admitted, within four
hours of their arrival at the A&E down from 98%!! in 2008
98 Percent of people who went to the A&E in 2008 were discharged, treated, or admitted within four hours,
Now its 87 percent. That means its less people being discharged quickly, it means we've become less efficient. This isn't so much a money problem as it is a how we use the money problem.
why are you putting so much emphasis on that one figure, maybe A&E times are down but like that mcdonalds 5 minute order rate, there's not a whole lot of meaning other than a number, it doesn't say much about the quality of service or the conditions of the people coming in.
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