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‘Unworkable’ NHS stretched by lack of resource
Chaand Nagpaul has told the Parliamentary Health Select Committee that proper funding and engagement with frontline staff is required to carry out necessary service transformation.
The British Medical Association council chair also said that doctors, who are stretched by lack of resource, were trying to provide care in an ‘unworkable’ NHS and that efforts to transform were being undermined by the need to make more savings.
He said: “We have a system now where we don’t have the resources for transformation or redesign. The reality at the moment is that we are seeing huge pressures on the NHS which I don’t believe any of us would call workable in a … civilised nation. To cancel 55,000 operations does not suggest an NHS working in a planned manner. To see thousands of patients queuing up outside casualty in January because there wasn’t space is not and NHS which is working.
“We do need a settlement which allows us to provide the sort of care that patients deserve. It is about money and infrastructure and capacity. The only way you correct the problems is by putting that money in. Every policy expert has recognised we need a proper funding settlement.”
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