Decade of Tory NHS Abuse in Facts and Figures

The government keep insisting that they are providing more funding and staff to the NHS, but the reality is that both have gone down, especially in real terms. In this video, I take a look at a few charts and figures to paint a picture of what has happened to parts of our national healthcare since the Tories came to power.
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[MaisieSqueak]

If they are SO sure that private health care is the way forward.... why do they do it in such underhanded and secretive ways?
Why don't they blatantly sell the idea and actively break it down?
Because it's UTTERLY immoral and they know it.
Greed and laziness is all it's about.

[martincarty]

Classic demonstration of how to privatise. (1) Under fund it. (2) It begins to fail. (3) Have the private sector come in to 'rescue' it. (4) Get very rich.

[anglonorse]

My wife works in staffing at a local hospital, it is hectic and down to the simple fact that there are not enough doctors, sometimes they cannot get cover for all shifts, 12 years of the conservatives have not been good for our NHS

[jamescooper]

Can they go lower? Nothing shocks me anymore. The U.K. has a serious shortage of intelligent politicians. Cheers Phil! ✊✌️

[orchidhouse]

Our local NHS Trust can be summarised by two words, "NOT ENOUGH" of anything, equipment, seating, medical staff. maintenance workers, space.

[clacton]

Wife and me went to Docs Sugary, no Doc so saw Matron, ECG taken wife has to go to Hospital. Ambulance? Yes please, Matron phoned, ambulance will take 26Hrs wait!! So I took her to A&E myself. She is now in Hospital saying it's absolutely rammed. Austerity and Brexit the Silent Killer in our midst.

[paulrodd]

A friend said to me fairly recently that the public gets the government they deserve. Unfortunately there are now so many 'people who will not see' that it is difficult to persuade them of certain truths. For instance, I have a friend who worked in the NHS for around 30 years and, although not a tory, doesn't see that government underfunding is to blame. She believes their lies and actually blames internal management and theft as the reason! Writing that I have to ask myself, 'why do I still talk to the brain dead?' 🤦‍♂️

[jounik]

The UK could just about afford having Tories in power in a global growth market. It has no chance of affording that in a post-Brexit world in recession and a Russian war going in Europe.

[garyarnold]

The Tories have degraded the NHS over many years / decades. The lack and delay of treatment has taken years off my life. I don't know if I will live to see a Labour government. The policies around covid ensured my mother had no chance of not contracting covid in a care home.

[gingerssmelllikecabbageand]

My how things have changed, have work in a and e for 4 years. Triage is always fun, when I started I would have to go to the waiting room having to announce and apologise, for short staffing etc etc. like it was our fault. We now apologise but stipulate it’s not our fault and your best speaking to your local MP in regards improving services. The local MP has asked management to stop this announcement as a hospital is not ment to be politically bias, we’ve ignored this by saying we’re asking local MP to get involved in his communities needs. We still announce it every night, the general public have informed me that he no longer takes calls or answers letter in regards the hospital and adjusts his opening hours weekly in order not to face the public. The last public census showed 58% of the areas was over 65yrs.The area it seem to have voted labour until brown years. It’s voted Tory since then, weather that’s getting older or economics I don’t know. But they are not winning the next

[pauleaton]

You're right Phil. I've worked for my local council since 1980. There's no staff left in my department. There was 400 staff in my section in 1992. Now theres 35! Work is still there. We had best value and investors in people. Efficiency savings.... cuts. Billions and Billions have been taken from councils due to tory ideology. Privatisation has wrecked everything.

[piccalillipit]

*IT IS THAT BAD* that my sister in East Yorkshire called me today to ask me if I could get PENACILIN - two of her students have Strep A and they CAN NOT FIND PENACILIN...!!!

Ill be buying it in BULGARIA and shipping it in medical aid packages to the UK - *THIS IS NOT A JOKE*

[clairedavies]

Its not only doctors you cant see. Nhs dentists have disappeared. I cant register anywhere!

[thomasmorin]

A&E is now a disaster zone due to patients unable to get a GP appointment.

[karlovejansson]

As Noam Chomsky said …….”defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

[steveparker]

While I am sure the fact that the Social Care Act of 2013 has allowed more and more for-profit organisations to claim a larger chunk of the NHS budget to give to their shareholders is a significant cause; I'll be watching and writing down any new facts Phil discusses as this situation is of great importance to anyone who enjoys living.

[williampatrickfagan]

Why does the government not give the 350 million pounds a week to the NHS as promised on the Brexshit bus.

[sugarfree]

The Health & Social Care Act of 2012 removed responsibility for the NHS from the Health Secretary.

[robertgrace]

The sad thing is that people assume that the staff treating them are NHS when they get bloods taken, or MRI’s and such, when they are often getting outsourced care.
They don’t notice the creeping privatisation, and haven’t noticed it.
I watched it happening during the 20-odd years I worked in the NHS (clerical staff), and it has increased in the years since I left.
I fear many still won’t believe what you are showing them.

[steveparker]

Thank you for the extra info Phil I have copied the data and will be using the new figures and maybe adding them to my blog and ebook later on. I have been on an NHS waiting list for over a year and was sent a letter today to confirm I still needed my appointment. While I understand why this could be necessary it's extremely frustrating as until diagnosis I can't get treatment and have to buy my own meds. It's a catch 22.