Wes Streeting's claim that #NHS manages 'use' winter crises to claim more resource, suggests the #LabourParty, as many have suspected, may not be the panacea that the #NHScrisis requires.
While Streeting is right that funding is not the only issue that impacts on the efficacy of UK #healthcare, making out NHS leaders to be cynical money grabbers is not they way to get staff on side for the reforms he may think necessary... its not a good start to the reform process
@ChrisMayLA6 What we should be hearing from Labour on this is 'fewer winter crises'. There'll always be some, in years that are uncommonly bad because of weather or disease, but there is no good reason to why we should be in crisis every winter. We didn't used to be. It was the middle of the last decade, maybe 2014 or 2015ish, I can't remember now, that winter crises became baked in.
And if there were fewer crises, that would assuage Streeting's concerns without the need to be divisive.
@ChrisMayLA6 It's really ham fisted too. The vast majority of waste is because of poor organisation (administratively), byzantine reporting procedures and antiquated IT. If I were a doctor, nurse or any other NHS staff member hearing this I'd be changing my voting intentions immediately.
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