Rishi Sunak to Announce £6 Billion Spending Package to Fight Growing NHS Backlog
In an effort to turn the tide on the expanding NHS backlog, estimated to encompass a record 5.7 million people on the waiting list, with an additional 100,000 being added every month, Rishi Sunak is set to announce a £6 billion spending package to help solve the crisis. In turn, roughly £2.3 billion will be earmarked for diagnostic services in an attempt to treat patients who have yet to receive access to NHS services. The Guardian has the story.
In an effort to get a grip on the crisis, the Chancellor will unveil plans for investment in NHS capital funding this week to help deliver about 30% more elective activity by 2024-25 compared to pre-pandemic levels. This is equivalent to millions more checks, scans and procedures for non-emergency patients.
“We are committed to getting health services back on track and ensuring no one is left waiting for vital tests or treatment,” said Sunak. “This is a game changing investment in the NHS to make sure we have the right buildings, equipment and systems to get patients the help they need and make sure the NHS is fit for the future.”
Dr. Layla McCay, Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation, said health leaders would welcome the funding, but added that it still “falls short” of what is needed “to get services completely back on track”.
McCay also warned that the funding would only deliver results if there were “the right number and mix of workers”. She said: “Recruitment is ongoing but with 80,000 vacancies across the NHS and fully qualified GPs per patient having dropped by 10% over the past five years, this is a long-term issue that cannot be fixed quickly.”
The waiting list is now rising by about 100,000 a month as more people who did not seek or could not access NHS treatment over the past 18 months visit a GP and are referred to hospital. The number of patients waiting more than two years has risen to nearly 10,000.
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What use is spending the money if you sack half the the staff because they haven’t been vaccinated and lay off the other half because they tested positive for Covid.
In many cases, they don’t even have to test positive. At the acute hospital where my wife works, staff are permitted to self-isolate if they suspect they might have had contact with an infected person, and no testing is required. Naturally, a hard core of staff is having these suspicions repeatedly!
My wife is an RGN, I remember at the start of this nonsense she told me 2 of her bosses (non-qualified (at anything) managers) both had repeated contact with infected persons & were off work for 4 months straight. Their day-to-day job was sitting in an office chair!
Many of those staff now being pressured to take the vaccine would have worked through whole pandemic last year without any vaccine at all.
It is the deepest human disgrace.
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https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports 1715 TOTAL FATALITIES.
https://openvaers.com/covid-data 17,128 DEATHS.
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Mind blowing! Essential Reading!
Not sure where the 150K figure comes from, but I don’t necessarily disbelieve it.
We can show this 8 different ways. There is no
doubt that the vaccines are the cause of all of these deaths because we
can prove this with the Bradford-Hill criteria
what ever that means – the author has asked for his number to be challenged but there have been no takers so far. Many believe VAERS only picks up 1% of actual vaccine injuries, around 10% for deaths seems reasonable
Agreed. 17,128 x 10 = 171,280. 171K & 150K aren’t too far off.
yes, and obviously the VAERS reported deaths are constantly increasing day by day so are far higher now than when the 150k deaths were suggested
Anyone know how many are in hospital with vaccine injures? Stopping the death shots could free up some beds and save a few quid
Sajid Javid was on talkradio this morning telling us why hospital staff should be jabbed to protect the patients – his boss was on TV telling us the jabs don’t stop infection or infectiousness and the scientific evidence (accepted by the CDC) confirms the PM isn’t lying for once and the jabbed are just as infectious as the un jabbed. Is Sajid a bit thick?
“Is Sajid a bit thick?”
Anyone know how much money he’s got, and where it came from?
Didn’t he ‘work’ for the Vampire Squid?
I don’t think he’s thick…. I suggest that he has shares in vaccines.
I think that you may be assured that, after a short interval post-office, or with the trick of “blind trusts”, a number of Tories (and probably others who have been closely involved in this charade) will be enjoying the fruits of the experimental inoculation industry’s bonanza.
Not just the tory scum the Natzi scum and the oh so convenient opposition carefully not asking the wrong questions will have a well funded sinecure awaiting them.
So what was rabid jab-it’s excuse for the vaccines, if it doesn’t prevent transmission, what was his argument?
I think he thinks the public are thick, worryingly I find myself agreeing with a tory for once.
He had a meeting with Mr Gates last week….
Didn’t the TalkRadio presenter pull him up on this? If it was JHB, I’d be surprised she didn’t.
JHB on hols, Mike Graham in but i think he was being restrained or these ministers are too cowardly to come back come back
Not thick. Wicked.
Of course it’s possible to be wicked and stupid at the same time, but to get to the top in politics you need a measure of low cunning, if nothing else.
Is Sajid a bit thick?
Alot thick I would say
Is he trying to smother the flames using pound notes?
Not Javid, he wants to deal with the fire by sacking the firemen.
What on earth do these Panjandrums think is the amount of money they need for the NHS? I’d love to see them actually put a figure down and defend it.
They just magic up money now. It means nothing. It’s like gambling in the trenches, it will never have to be paid back because we’re all going over the top soon.
Could somebody point out to the numpties at the Treasury and Dept of Health that prevention is better than cure, and that without paying attention to that we just have a pit of sickness treatment into which we fruitlessly shovel money.
Stop wastefully feeding the drug companies, teach people how to take care of themselves when they feel ill with covid symptoms, using e.g. simple home treatments like H2O2 nebulisers, and repurposed cheap off-label drugs with good safety profiles that can be safely made available for use at home without management by clinical staff – as in Uttar Pradesh for example.
Show them what they need to do to boost their immune systems with vitamins – a.k.a. Vital Amines typically not sufficiently provided by diet or depleted by bad lifestyle choices – and exercise.
In short give good advice and trust the people, don’t lumber them with massive tax bills for an ever more restricted health service.
Total bill so far for this covid heist is aroiund £320 billion, most it which went straight into the pockets of the regimes mates and the billionaires behind the scam. Who will be picking up the bill? Not the poor as they have no assets and not the elite as they are untouchable. Its property owners and the middle class who will have their bank accounts raided as per the communism playbook where the aim is to have a slave class and an elite class with nothing in between. It used to be the case that when communists took charge, the middle class would be taken out and shot but they cant do that now, at least for the time being. Instead they eliminate them by closing their businesses, regulating them into oblivion and stealth taxes.
Rishi has a big money tree all of his own, if he can afford £400,000 for a house extension including a swimming pool.
Not a chance of him going without food or heating this winter.
Unplug the newspapers and stop reading the TV
Look at the staged photo of Sunak pretending to be thinking “Oh no, another bill…”
Looks like he has a slight smile and is about to burst out laughing.
Not at all – he’s doing an eye test 🙂
He looks like the kid who works in a backstreet, textile shop.
I always suspected Rishi was a member of the Illuminati. Now we have photographic proof…
I think he’s reading a memo from boris in the pic. What’s the proof of Illuminati? I don’t understand these things
Some conspiracy theorists have this theory that certain celebrities/public figures covering one eye in photographs, album covers, etc are indicating that they are members of the Illuminati – the All Seeing Eye being a potent symbol of that secret society.
Also, Rishi worked for a company called Theleme, which is only one vowel away from Thelema, an esoteric occult group founded by Aleister Crowley.
I know far too much pointless information.
probably right – makes sense
Stop throwing money at the nhs!! What’s the point? Every year it’s given billions and every year they complain of being overwhelmed! Start off my sacking the top brass who waste this money on pointless diversity consultants and other stuff. Managers need to be held accountable for the failings.
More reward for failure, and GPs still do not want to go back to seeing patients in person. Also rumours of public sector pay increases. More rewards for the WFH lockdown fanatics.
The NHS has reduced beds through efficiencies over the last 20 years getting peeps in and out of hospital quickly, which is fine (I think) during normal working conditions – unfortunately no one factored in the winter respiratory disease season when extra beds and staff will always be needed in numbers that cannot be planned for because each season is different.
and why don’t they sanitise the air in hospitals with uv/heat/other within air ducting so airborne/aerosol pathogens/viral load can’t build up – simples!
So let’s get this straight. You are suggesting that the NHS actually does something to deal with nosocomial infections, which we have known since March 2020 are the main sources of infection in the community. What madness is this?
you’re right, apologies
“efficiencies” = cuts
I can quite believe that the NHS needs to spend more on actual front-line care – but I also very much suspect that they could fund much of this by cutting out swathes of unnecessary middle management and pointless roles.
More money with no strings attached will definitely fix the NHS, since it worked so well in the past.
yes, more money with no strategy other than spending it
Has Rishi Sunak, not heard of Black Holes… This is where the money, wedge, cash Luca, finance call it what you like will disappear.
” NHS services back on track? “, never have been and never will be.
What pandemic was that then
Headline should read ‘Man goes for walk, becomes hysterical and decides everyone should be locked up’
Covid: Concern at people behaving as if pandemic is over – BBC News
Dr Merritt has some interesting discussions on her website. She is remarkably clear-sighted, and characterises Covid as an act of war against the population. It makes more sense seen this way. She believes that all the “variants” are simply the effects of the vaccine programme, and that the “virus” is an injectable/transmissible bioweapon. https://drleemerritt.com/ Merritt is correct in the sense that the death waves in all countries followed rapidly after the deployment of the vaccines. Some countries were free of Covid until vaccination started. Repeated booster programmes will mean that the “virus” will never disappear. So more stringent social controls can be implemented and the screw repeatedly tightened. Personally, I like Dr Merritt even though I am not always sure about her interpretations in detail. Her military background gives her a real start in seeing how bioweapons programmes have played a major role in the thinking and planning of this initiative. Robert Kennedy also talks about the removal (at a stroke) of American constitutional rights – jury trials, free speech freedom of movement, religious freedoms…coronavirus is just a smokescreen to implement these attacks. He says that they must fight the second American revolution. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hQ2UIjtt12uP/ Kennedy talks about the CIA and… Read more »
Just had an interesting encounter in my town centre, a St. Johns ambulance there, advertising ‘treatment centre’ so I asked the nurse what treatments they were offering, her reply “just covid vaccination” to which I said “shame on you” and she looked sad and replied “I know”!!
The good news is they had nobody in at the time.
History repeating….
https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/08/23/gas-vans-mobile-killing-units/comment-page-1/
Why do politicians always think that throwing money at a problem will resolve the issue. Reform of the NHS is required not more money.( Does anybody think tattoo removal or having a sex change is a priority to be funded by the tax payer?)
Because it generally means throwing YOUR money into theirs & their mate’s pockets.
The people who shout loudest against paying tax are generally the ones with their hands stretched out the furthest begging for government handouts.
The last time I remember the government paying for failure was in the sixties when most military contracts were awarded in an open-ended cost plus manner, where the manufacturer was paid what it costs plus a percentage on top – not exactly encouragement to perform efficiently. The NHS seems to be in a similar position.
Don’t worry, guys! I have it on good authority that the NHS is free!
yes, its certainly free of any fitness for purpose
“This is a game changing investment in the NHS to make sure we have the right buildings, equipment and systems to get patients the help they need and make sure the NHS is fit for the future.”
This sounds to to me like when you put in a new kitchen and bathroom to increase the saleability of your house. They wouldn’t be thinking of selling off our beloved NHS would they?? Might explain why they’re not that bothered about it being staffed, just equipped.
Probably more like painting over the damp patches!
Its ok, no one rational would have anything to do with buying it.
All the money is made in supplying it, as the purchasing managers are so flipping useless, similarly all the money allegedly spent on improvements on equipment will be found later to have been pe ed up the wall on overpriced useless tat supplied by mates of the heierarchy.
The 1st world continental systems don’t suffer from this problem, funny that!
Remember the government has no money until they take it from you by force. Governments have a poor record of spending money and bureaucrats are often no better.
Pumping more money into the underfunded NHS might well be required in principle; but do not underestimate the ability of Politicians and NHS managers to misallocate it