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Sir Keir rules out extra cash to repair NHS
(morningstaronline.co.uk)
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you cant reform the nhs without more funding since its funding has been slashed for a decade.
agreed.
But you need a viable plan for reform. Or you are just throwing money at the problem.
Assuming the most forgiving interpretation of his statements. (not saying we should, just avoiding bias)
“No more money without reform,” could indicate he expects the NHS to agree to a policy of reform before throwing any more money at it.
The main issue is more funding won't help; all it does is patch things up, and the root causes of the issues never get solved.
With reform, you could remove bureaucracy where it causes issues and add it where there's breakdowns in communications instead of just adding more funding to improve capacity in one obvious area and expose a bottleneck immediately before or after it, making the majority of the extra funding wasted
It's usually a good idea to patch a ship before it sinks, rather than re-arrange the deck chairs.