Quote Originally Posted by WBA123 View Post
Whilst I don't doubt our doctors and nurses will do a fantastic job. They're doing it with their hands held behind their back.

I want the Tories to get this right from hereon. But their underfunding of the NHS in the last 10 years has been nothing short of criminal.

We have 43,000 fewer nurses and 17,000 fewer hospital beds than in 2010.

Per 1000 people, for number of hospital beds by country in the world, we are 35th. Italy are 25th. France are 10th. Germany are 4th. I would say that gives those countries a much greater advantage of their health service 'holding up' in the next 3 months..

I would direct your ire towards the Tories and their chronic funding record in the last decade rather than the EU for any unnecessary deaths.
You are of course correct there are fewer beds in the NHS compared to 2010 which is nothing for the Tories to be proud of even with the excuse of having to pick up the economic mess left by Labour.

So let's look at what Labour did in the years of plenty 2000-2010.

Number of beds

Labour

2000 241,000
2010 183,000

Tories

2010-183,00
2017-167,00

So like I said nothing to be proud of but you could say in tough times they have at least slowed down the rate of decrease.

Over to you 123