Because of a deliberate 12 year policy of underinvestment, combined with the Lansley reforms that added 4x the admin costs.
It's not cos of excess managers. Average managers in any business is 5%. In NHS it's 2%.
It's because of deliberate vandalism by successive Tory govts 🧵
It's not cos of excess managers. Average managers in any business is 5%. In NHS it's 2%.
It's because of deliberate vandalism by successive Tory govts 🧵
https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1608874384210661376
When the Tories took over 2 commonwealth studies placed NHS as the best, most efficient large health service on earth. By the time Covid struck it had been beaten down to lowest in the OECD. That was intentional. Leading Tory figures openly campaigned against it's existence
Raab, Patel, Lansley, Johnson, Truss, Gove, half the party is on record as opposing the existence of the NHS. Many of them accept money from US health insurance lobby. John Major said the NHS is as safe with the Tories "as a pet hamster in the presence of a hungry python"
The Tory party voter over 30 times against the creation of the NHS. They've starved it of funds. Cut training bursaries so we can't train our own staff. Removed the right to bring in overseas staff. Outsourced recruitment to greedy agencies that syphon up to 50% of salary
The promise of 40 hospitals turned out to be 3. The promise of 50,000 nurses turned out to be barely 2/3 of that - and they still haven't been recruited. The last health secretary said she didn't care if staff quit. The current govt pays them less than staff at Aldi.
None of this - cuts to funding, staff, beds, research, training, essential social care - none of it is the mark of a govt that wants the service to exist. If you reckon this has gone unnoticed you must be stupid. We know EXACTLY what you're doing. We won't forgive or forget.
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