We’ve been waiting some time for his plan to tackle NHS waiting times, we were told it would arrive before Christmas, we were told it would arrive yesterday, and it’s not clear from his statement today that the delay was worth the wait.
There’s no plan to tackle the workforce crisis, no plan to deal with delayed discharges and no hope of eliminating waits of more than a year before the general election in 2024.
The only big new idea seems to be a website that tells people they’re waiting a long time, as if they didn’t already know.
What we did hear was a series of re-announcements including some perfectly sensible proposals for community diagnostic and surgical hubs – we welcome those – but the secretary of state cannot pretend that they meet the scale of the challenge.
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