The NHS has been underfunded, understaffed and lacking in serious investment for decades by various governments that have found it harder and harder to keep it going. Alyone waiting for the land of milk and honey promised by a Labour government in 2024 will be disappointed. There needs to a completely different way of thinking about the way it's funded in future and most people will not like it. 19% pay rise is a crazy amount and can olny be funded by cuts elsewhere.

My brother went private for a simple treatment the other year and it was a completely different world. I remember trying to get a graph of my mothers weight at the QMC years ago. Considering that the loss of weight was the reason she was in there they couldn't supply me with one. Instead turned up with a book that they'd written it down in when they remembered, absolute disgrace. It is in no longer fit for purpose!!!!!