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NHS/Health week - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Waiting lists for elective care have reached record high levels 7.57m in England [4], this follows a steep increase from the pandemic as well as a shallower increase from 2010 of waiting lists [5].
    - - It is hard to compare waiting lists between the different parts of the UK as each nation measures different types of treatment in their measurements.
        
        The BBC removed data from the Welsh reports that was not tracked in the UK reports to compare the states of the NHS.
        
        For waiting times after a referal to a specialists around 20% are waiting more then 12 months compared with 5% in England and 2.5% in the North East. [1] In Scotland waiting times in Scotland are also very poor with over 11% of patients waiting 18 months to 2 years for operations [2].
        
        For A&E admission, transfer and discharge times England is slightly lagging behind Wales with just over 60% of patiants being seen in less then 4 hours in Wales and 60% of patients being seen in England in less then 4 hours [2], however niether of these hit the 95% target.
        
        Northern Ireland's waiting lists and health service is in an even worse a state with the BMA in Northern Ireland warning that "the health service is collapsing and that UK colleagues have been shocked at the extent of the issues within it and recently passed a motion calling for urgent action to address the problems as a conference in London this week." [3]
  - - - The government has failed to deal with consultant and junior doctor strikes that have begun taking their toll on the health service. Over 800,000 appointments have been cancelled since the start of the strikes in December [8]. The government has offered a 6% pay rise, but the doctors are demanding 35% pay rise to counter loss of pay over the last 14 years.
    - - In 2021 England had the 4th lowest number of doctors per 1,000 people (the UK is third lowest) within the OECD, within secondary care medical vacinces make up 7.2% of all medical posts and the situation is worse in nursing where the rate is over 10% [6]. There has been an increase in the number secondary care doctors of 4.7% between 2022 and 2023, but it remains to be seen weather these increases can help deal with increasing demand and the backlog [7].
- - - - The government is taking a hard line on the issue refusing to up the current pay off that is on the table (6%), this was the offer the pay review body [9].
    - - The government is increasing funding to the NHS so that by 2024 the NHS budget will reach £165.9bn [10]
      - The government is comitted to building 40 new hospitals by 2030 and many more community centres and are pushing for the recruitment of more doctors through the oppening of more medical school places [11].
        
        However, the government is not on track to hit their hospital building targets with them only finishing 32 of the 40 pledged, there are also fears that, as the governemnt tightens its belt, that these hospitals will be built too small [12].