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The UK’s National Health Service has been a source of pride for millions of people for more than 70 years. But nurses, angry about pay and working conditions, are planning another round of strikes this week – leading to greater disruption for the very people the institution is meant to serve. Staff will walk off the job on Tuesday for the second time this month. The government has refused to negotiate with them. Ministers say their wage demands are unaffordable. On Wednesday more than 10-thousand ambulance workers – including paramedics – will also down tools. Presenter: Nastasya Tay Oksana Pyzik – Pharmacist and Lecturer at UCL School of Pharmacy Jeff Lazarus – Researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health Jonathan Portes – Senior Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #UnitedKingdom #NHS #CostOfLivingCrisis #NHSStrikes #UKWorkersStrikes

20 Replies to “What’s gone wrong with the UK’s National Health Service? | Inside Story”

  1. NHS finance is a complicated issue. It’s not just a matter of Government deciding nurses’ pay, it’s about how spending is allocated.

    The NHS is divided into regions. Within regions there are hospitals, clinics, GP surgeries, Ambulance service, and others.
    In a hospital the budget is split between capital expenditure (buildings, major refurbishment, expensive equipment etc) and operating costs. The hospital cannot transfer funds from capital to operating costs.
    Within the operating costs there are further divisions into categories including salaries (doctors, nursing staff – permanent, temp and agency, management, admin, and consultancy), utilities, IT and telephony, clothing, furniture, medical supplies, laundry, food, and other categories. It is not possible for a hospital to transfer funds across the main categories of operating costs.
    This is why we have seen instances of capital expenditure on equipping and refurbishing buildings side by side with ward closures because there is no money in the budget for staffing these wards.

    The capital expenditure vs operating costs and the “ring fencing” of budget categories is common across the public sector. Until this system is overhauled from the top down I don’t see the situation improving. Successive governments have claimed to be “spending more on the NHS than ever before”, but unless the money is used effectively what are governments achieving?

  2. It’s been massively underfunded by the Torys for years (and then there was Brexit).
    There….I saved you 25 minutes.

  3. The UK is a completely dysfunctional system destined for 3rd world living standards in the next 10 years. Get out while you still can

  4. Once the North Sea oil was sold off and the oligarch citizenship scam was revealed, UK now has run out things to sell.

  5. They don’t get a break as there aren’t enough staff. They are breaking their backs. I saw the nurses in hospital as I was in last year four days. They get less than cleaners now in London.

  6. The Government is deliberately trying to wind down the NHS so they can privatise it. The Government never liked the NHS as none of them and their friends can make money out of it that they want.

  7. If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There’s always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You must look outward if you wanna be successful in life.

  8. UK is overpopulated. Mass immigration. Our services can not cope. That includes our NHS service. That is what is wrong with UK’s NHS.

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