NHS facing 'mission impossible next year'

[Northerner]

NHS services in England are facing a "mission impossible" to meet the standards required by the government, health bosses say.

The warning has been made by NHS Providers, which represents hospital, mental health and ambulance trusts.

It said front-line services simply do not have enough money - and predicts longer waits for hospital operations and more delays in A&E as a result.

But ministers said the NHS has been given the money it needs.

The NHS budget is increasing this Parliament, but not by as much as the health service has traditionally got.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39316963

So, the response to the NHS saying they don't have enough money is always that the NHS has been given the money it needs, rather than any discussion about the incompatibilities between these two statements 🙄

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Another nail in the coffin

 

[mikeyB]

NHS England. Basket case.

They may well get enough money, but there are simply too many layers of management being paid for no good reason. NHS Scotland is far from perfect, but gets along quite nicely without hospital trusts and the like. NHS England can be fixed, but not starting from where it is now.