For the first time since records began more people are dissatisfied with the NHS than are satisfied with it, according to a recent poll by the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust think tanks. They are frustrated with the difficulties in seeing a GP, or getting in to A&E, or getting their long-awaited surgery. It comes in the same week as the Ockenden report found that failures at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust led to 200 babies dying or suffering brain damage.
In Conservative circles, mutterings are made about efficiency and how the NHS needs a revamp. There is a strange fairytale those on the right of the political spectrum seem to believe in: that the NHS’s problems are due to anything but lack of funding. As has been the fashion for years, they point the finger at lazy doctors, as through medical staff go into the profession in the hope of an easy life and not to improve the lives of their patients.
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