A&E units are becoming unfit for purpose – the NHS review findings can’t come soon enough
HOSPITAL A&E units are fast becoming unfit for purpose.
Waits of over 12 hours for emergency care are now routine for patients — a record half a million last year.
Being treated in a corridor is now standard and delays in finding beds are getting longer.
Yet tax-payer funding for the NHS has never been higher.
Yes, the pandemic caused a massive backlog which is being slowly shifted.
But new Health Secretary Wes Streeting has a huge job on his hands to come up with a workable plan to turn around casualty departments.
Tackling massive overspending in other areas of the health system would help.
The findings of Streeting’s independent review into our broken NHS can’t come soon enough.
Zero to lose
RACHEL Reeves may be right in her drive to cut waste in the public sector.
The Sun has argued for years against ludicrous spending across Whitehall.
Our welfare budget is spiralling out of control and fraud in the system is endemic.
But trimming a few million quid here and there won’t be enough in the face of a stalling economy facing zero growth.
The Chancellor must go much further and be determined to take an axe to the whole of Whitehall.
She could start by telling Ed Miliband his Net Zero plans will bankrupt the country.
And telling Labour’s friends in the unions to take a hike.
Criminally soft
ONCE again a vile criminal is free to roam our streets thanks to a soft-touch judge.
The case simply beggars belief.
After a jury rejected a Jamaican rapist’s risible defence that he didn’t know it was illegal to have sex with an unconscious woman, an immigration appeals tribunal decided he could stay in the UK after serving his jail sentence.
That’s despite the Home Office ruling him a danger to women.
Incredibly, the judges accepted the monster’s claims he would be targeted in Jamaica for being bisexual and posed no threat.
How could they possibly know? Why take the risk?
Axe the licence
IT is beyond time that the BBC licence fee was scrapped.
These so-called experts are simply not on our side.
The Tories threatened to axe it but never did.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy must not swerve the same decision.
A Netflix-style subscription would bring back viewers and end the unfair prosecutions that target the poorest.
What she must not do is force everybody to pay for it — like it or not — through tax.