A&E units are becoming unfit for purpose – the NHS review findings can’t come soon enough

Source: The Sun

Author: The Sun

Published: Jan, 12 2025 22:14

HOSPITAL A&E units are fast becoming unfit for purpose. Waits of over 12 hours for emergency care are now routine for patients — a record half a million last year. Being treated in a corridor is now standard and delays in finding beds are getting longer.

Image Credit: The Sun [Ambulances waiting to unload patients at a hospital emergency department.]

Yet tax-payer funding for the NHS has never been higher. Yes, the pandemic caused a massive backlog which is being slowly shifted. But new Health Secretary Wes Streeting has a huge job on his hands to come up with a workable plan to turn around casualty departments.

Image Credit: The Sun [Blurred photo of NHS hospital ward staff.]

Tackling massive overspending in other areas of the health system would help. The findings of Streeting’s independent review into our broken NHS can’t come soon enough. RACHEL Reeves may be right in her drive to cut waste in the public sector. The Sun has argued for years against ludicrous spending across Whitehall.

Image Credit: The Sun [Headshot of Rachel Reeves speaking to the media.]

Our welfare budget is spiralling out of control and fraud in the system is endemic. But trimming a few million quid here and there won’t be enough in the face of a stalling economy facing zero growth. The Chancellor must go much further and be determined to take an axe to the whole of Whitehall.

Image Credit: The Sun [Man handcuffed with hands behind his back.]

She could start by telling Ed Miliband his Net Zero plans will bankrupt the country. And telling Labour’s friends in the unions to take a hike. ONCE again a vile criminal is free to roam our streets thanks to a soft-touch judge. The case simply beggars belief.

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