Should the government heed the warning signs of the NHS crisis?
The government should heed the warning signs and embark on fundamental reform. The real NHS crisis is political not humanitarian. Politicians of all parties have failed to provide sufficient funding for health and social care, with predictable and sometimes distressing consequences.
Are politicians failing to provide enough funding for Health & Social Care?
Politicians of all parties have failed to provide sufficient funding for health and social care, with predictable and sometimes distressing consequences. Hospitals are struggling to meet rising demands from a growing and ageing population, and most are failing to hit the four hour waiting time target in emergency departments.
Is the NHS the most important issue facing the UK?
It seems hard to believe now but at the time of the 2017 election the Ipsos MORI Issues Index had 61 per cent of people identifying the NHS as one of the most important issues facing the country, 16 percentage points above ‘Brexit/Europe’ (see Figure 1).
Are pressures affecting people's experience of NHS services?
This is no longer the case and across a range of measures pressures such as staffing levels, waiting times and access to services appear to be having an impact both on people’s experience of services and their overall perception of the NHS. So, what do the numbers tell us?
Citizenship and the Politics of Welfare - the case of the NHS