the National Health Service is getting better we made the decision the NHS was special the NHS the NHS the National Health Service the NHS is under pressure in every part of the United Kingdom it's a question that keeps being asked how do we solve the ongoing crisis in the NHS what can be done to fix this is a big question and one which has potentially many many answers there are some big challenges facing the NHS today the number of beds it has available for patients is the money being invested in the Health Service going to the right places we have an aging population and a broken social care system there are Workforce pressures including Recruitment and Retention the low staff morale and the care and Welfare of healthcare staff the pressures on Mental Health Services and a backlog that has been turbocharged by the covid-19 pandemic 999 mode ultimately it comes down to this what does the public need the NHS to be and is it offering the level of service required if not how can it again huge questions with no simple answers thank you for having us that the NHS needs reform prime minister Rishi sunak made reducing the NHS waiting list one of his key pledges for the next couple of years back in November 2022 Health secretary Steve Barkley also outlined five priorities in the short term for the NHS they were employing more staff for NHS 111 and 999 focusing on urgent and Emergency Care tackling delays in discharge from hospital improving access to Primary Care and investing in technology to help Labor's Shadow Health secretary were streeting recently has had some strong words to say about the National Health Service NHS is in crisis the biggest crisis in its history he said the NHS was in existential crisis and pledged his party would train more staff use the private sector to bring down waiting lists and introduce Fair pay and conditions for workers it will have three definitely and two possible discharges there was once a time when politicians claimed the NHS was the Envy of the world that doesn't seem to be the case anymore and people are looking overseas for answers to this crisis we want Scandinavian quality alongside Singaporean efficiency so what does this mean some people want to follow some European health models where patients pay some money towards treatment the former Health secretary Sajid Javid says some patients should pay to see their GP or for Ed visits but others like the former labor leader Gordon Brown won that this would create a two-tier Health System where the poorest would be worst off this is not a new conversation people have been talking about NHS reform for nearly as long as the service has been around but it is struggling more now than it has ever been and no short-term Solutions are going to fix it long term well-funded planning is needed something that has been difficult to guarantee in these turbulent political times