{"id":57934,"date":"2021-07-07T11:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=57934"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:17:24","slug":"why-do-we-have-an-nhs-crisis-coming-our-way-because-the-government-has-under-resourced-it-thats-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/07\/why-do-we-have-an-nhs-crisis-coming-our-way-because-the-government-has-under-resourced-it-thats-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we have an NHS crisis coming our way? Because the government has under-resourced  it. That&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office for Budget Responsibility <a href=\"https:\/\/obr.uk\/the-chairmans-presentation-on-our-third-fiscal-risks-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made a presentation on the financial risks facing the UK yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20-550x313.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20-550x313.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20-527x300.png 527w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20-1536x874.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20-600x342.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.20.png 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The OBR considered health care issues as a cause of financial risk and presented this data:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.59-550x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.59-550x296.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.59-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.59-1536x827.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.59-600x323.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-07-at-09.46.59.png 1808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The data shows that as a result of continual underinvestment by the UK government we have well below average numbers of acute care beds, and so limited capacity to manage crises, below-average numbers of doctors and nurses and below average numbers of CT scanners.<\/p>\n<p>And you wonder why we have a massive Covid crisis in the UK and an NHS which may well not be able to cope?<\/p>\n<p>Don't blame those who work for the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>Blame Cameron, May and Johnson: they underfunded the NHS and created this crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office for Budget Responsibility made a presentation on the financial risks facing the UK yesterday: The OBR considered health care issues as a cause<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/07\/why-do-we-have-an-nhs-crisis-coming-our-way-because-the-government-has-under-resourced-it-thats-why\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,128,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-nhs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}