As with so many organisational crisis, the NHS crisis is about workforce planning & the treatment (and experience) of staff.
Medical staff are over-worked & often under-paid, working in often crumbling buildings & too often bare the brunt of social breakdown (manifesting as health problems).
So lets listen to healthcare workers: make their lives better, invest in the environment they work in & employ more of them, and much (but not all) the crisis would be eased!
@ChrisMayLA6 Absolutely this! As well as talking about how Truss crashed the economy, the Government should spend a lot of time talking about what the Tories did to NHS staff.
@ChrisMayLA6 Bad news on that front, unfortunately: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/10/hiring-freeze-nhs-cancer-diagnostic-units-rising-referrals
Still, I guess that's the "loophole" we were looking for in Streeting's alleged block on private providers poaching NHS staff the other day- stop the NHS from hiring them in the first place.