Tory leadership contest reveals complacency about NHS crisis

The recent televised leadership debates told us very little about Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss’s health policies.The two candidates to lead the Conservative Party—and therefore the country—haven’t exactly gone big on how they would solve the fundamental crisis that the NHS is currently grappling with.How about the gridlock in emergency departments and the pressure being felt across the whole system, including social care? Last month every ambulance service in England had been put on the highest level of alert.1 Even trust chief executives have admitted they are “presiding over a failing NHS.”2No, neither candidate had offered any ideas to sort that one out.What about staff? Neither the NHS nor social care has enough, and vacancies now stand at 105 000. No, nothing here, either.How about the 6.6 million people on NHS waiting lists, then? Surely the candidates had something to say about this? Afterall, many of these people will be…
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