As the coronavirus crisis ticks into another week, it is tempting to look forward with a sense of optimism. The death rate attributable to the disease is dropping, the curve is flattening. Discussion around ending lockdown is more practical than aspirational. The nation is, perhaps, reaching the other side of this.
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Investing in new beds and ambulances is a good idea in itself, but it won’t achieve much without the workforce to staff them.
Changing funding models, cutting managers or blaming privatisation are at best a distraction. The problems facing the NHS are poor workforce retention, low bed capacity and failure to treat the NHS crisis as a wider public health crisis.
Excluding the pandemic years, 2022 was the deadliest 12 months on record since 1951.
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