The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt has said he accepts “the picture that the NHS is on the brink of collapse” but warned the struggling service will also need to play its part in helping fix Britain’s broken economy.
Jeremy Hunt said there were “massive pressures in the NHS … with doctors, nurses on the frontline frankly under unbearable pressure”. However, he said the service received a lot of money and “we need to do everything we can to find efficiencies”.
About 20,000 people a day are waiting at least four hours in A&E, NHS England figures show, with many others stuck in hospital corridors waiting for a bed, doctors’ leaders have warned.
Full story in The Guardian, 13 November 2022