More cuts are planned for the NHS which would lead to longer queues for treatment. At the moment the waiting list is 18 weeks or longer and according to data it has increased by 40 per cent in a year.
October 2015
it shows a 293, 904 people were on the waiting list after being referred to a hospital
for treatment. The rapid increase shows in this October, 2016 with a 360,266
people on the waiting list for 18 weeks.
In October, 2014 it was a 169,907 people.
Only these
few figures show and prove the decline of the NHS service and it is done
purposely. By now nobody can tell the public otherwise.
It also
shows the false promises and lies which were given at General Elections and
ever since for improvement of waiting lists
Health
Secretary Jeremy Hunt vowed to tackle the high number of 12-months waiting in
2014 but experts said the crisis is the worst in living memories.
The public
is fully aware of it and it is high time Jeremy Hunt, PM May and Chancellor
Philip Hammond stop blind-folding them. They only lose the trust of the public even
more.
In one week
alone, ending December 18, the Ambulance and Emergency departments (A&E)
had to deal with 374,268 cases. It was an increase of 10 per cent for the same
time last year.
NHS asks,
since the Christmas and New Year period
will be ahead to try and avoid to go to the A&E to lessen the waiting time
and their workload. They advised to contact their GP or NHS emergency phone
line 111 for advice or pharmacies.
Today the
working people are paying a very high National Insurance contribution and only
a small number need hospital treatment and it is therefore hard to understand
that the NHS is in a financial crisis.
It would be
interesting to know where those billions of pounds from National Insurance Contributions really go to.
It is also
hard to accept that the Government axed over 5,000 nurses and then employed
agency staff to replace it. Everyone knows that agency staff cost three times
as much as permanent staff plus adding the millions of pounds of redundancy
money makes it look like a lunatic plan.
Or was there
a method of the madness to feather some friend’s agency and at the same time to
increase the NHS financial crisis? Looking at it like that it makes more sense
for the Government but a great loss for the general public.
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