[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Arthur, do you actually read anything that others post, or are you so busy raging against the dying of the light that you can't be bothered looking for a light switch?

In the quote I posted above what you have just posted, it says there are over 32000 more doctors than 10 years ago, over 18000 more nurses, and nearly 6000 more GPs and 1688 practice nurses, with an additional 12342 allied health professionals. Medical school intake has risen from 3749 per year in 1997 to 6262 per year in 2012/13.

If you clicked on the link I provided, you would have seen we now have 150,273 doctors, 377191 qualified nursing staff, and 155,960 qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff.

You would have seen that there were nearly 16 million hospital admission in 2014/15, nearly a third more than 10 years earlier; you would have seen that there were 22.364 million attendances at A&E in 2014/15, a quarter more than 10 years before; you would have seen there were 85.632 million outpatient attendances, and that there has been a 18.5% increase in emergency incidents in the last five years, and that there has been an increase in the people with diabetes to 3.2 million.

Arthur, I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you...

Yeah but

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

where does all the millions go, that is pumped into the NHS each year.

Originally Posted by nomadking

And what has extra money got to do with claimed reasons for the strike? Eg On banners shown on the news, "increase stress", "not safe", "less safe", "tired doctors make mistakes". Yet there are to be fewer hours and mechanisms(ie guardians) in place to enforce better working hours.

The way I understand it the safeguards are being watered down and the mechanisms all but removed