Thread by @TizBroken

If you are unable to get an appointment with your GP

If you’re waiting hours to be seen in A&E

If you’re unable to get access to an NHS dentist

If you’re waiting years for a routine operation to improve your daily life
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If the nurses don’t answer the call bell because they’re also doing the work of the two colleagues they’re down on the shift

If there’s no carers in the community to undertake routine care

If there’s no Nursing or Residential Home bed for the elderly or disabled
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Please don’t blame the NHS or its dedicated & hardworking staff, just look at what’s happened over the last 14 years.

As recently as 2014, a Commonwealth Fund study ranked the NHS as the best healthcare system in the world and the second cheapest of those analysed.
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After years of of Tory underfunding, the NHS is in crisis. Around 7.61 million people are on elective waiting lists in England alone, while A&E wait times are creeping up.
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The median waiting time for all patients increased from two hours nine minutes in May 2011 to three hours four minutes in November 2023. And a staggering 1.5 million patients in England waited 12 hours or more after arriving at A&E over the past year.
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A 2023 King’s Fund study clearly identified this underfunding.

The UK has below average healthcare spending per person compared to peer countries.
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kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

The UK lags behind other countries in its capital investment & has substantially fewer key resources than many of its peers, including CT & MRI scanners & hospital beds.

The UK has low levels of clinical staff, incl Drs & nurses, & is heavily reliant on foreign trained staff
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After years of chronic underfunding, under-resourcing and understaffing, we’re now in a position where satisfaction rates for social care are on the floor.
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Research released Wed 27/03/24 by the King’s Fund & Nuffield Trust finds just 13% of people are satisfied with their experiences of the social care system. That is close to half of the level for the NHS (24%) – which is itself the lowest NHS satisfaction rate on record.
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The evidence is plain for all to see, in 14 years the Tories have destroyed our once great institution & left a crumbling mess (literally in the case of some hospital buildings) for the next government to sort out.
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mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/o…

It’s clear the NHS is not safe in Tory hands, please use your vote sensibly & get rid of them, that will be a good start. Then the hard work to repair it can begin. #SOSNHS #GeneralElectionNow #HopeNotHunt
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