Reply To: NHS – will it survive?

[bella]

The situation now is unprecedented. That means that this level of demand has never been seen before in the NHS, and it’s due to huge numbers of people with flu.

I’m sorry about your Dad, but there is no way that we can run the NHS with enough resources to cope with unprecendented demand, because the rest of the time – almost all the time – it would mean empty beds, unused equipment and staff without enough work to do.

Just because we are having a flu problem right now doesn’t mean the NHS is about to die itself.

The NHS is a victim of its own success in keeping old people alive longer, and a victim of people not taking care of their own health and getting too fat.

Last year 44,000 people applied to train as nurses but only 23,000 were accepted, so I doubt if there will be a problem filling training places now it’s changed to student loans like every other career.