Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
This is what they are doing:

"The health service will receive an extra £3.3 billion in each of the next two years, while £4.7 billion will go into social care, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in his autumn statement".

It sounds big numbers, but this is the reality:

"The annual increase for the next two years is 1.2% in real terms “which is below the average” seen in the decade preceding the pandemic (2%), as well as the historical average of around 3.8%"

It's peanuts, and it's allowing the situation to deteriorate. That's why thousands of NHS staff have had enough.
Do you have an opinion on consultants etc working privately?

A friend of mine had been waiting for months for an important operation. Her daughter then needed the same operation - she could get it privately and so it was done within a month - by the same consultant.