We need a royal commission to save the struggling NHS

The UK population is set to go to the polls in a general election on 4 July in the midst of the European football championship. The National Health Service (NHS) has once again taken on its customary role as a political football. Remarkably, everyone seems to agree on one thing at least. Burgeoning hospital waiting lists, ongoing junior doctors strikes, overcrowded emergency departments, and scarcity of access to GP appointments, all point to serious systemic issues and a lack of funding that must be tackled.1 The NHS as a whole needs urgent resuscitation which requires some pretty drastic measures.But the manifesto proposals from the main political parties at best amount to a sticking plaster over a Grand Canyon sized gaping wound.2 Politicians are failing to offer solutions to the root cause of the NHS crisis, which is as simple as it is obvious: the demand and expectations of the NHS…
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