NHS 75: Health services face ‘intense’ pressure after a ‘decade of underinvestment’
A nurse wearing PPE working on a patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, January 2021
THE NHS faces “intense” pressure as it enters its 75th year amid a record rise in demand for care and “the biggest financial squeeze in its history,” health service leaders warned today.
NHS Providers chief executive Sir Julian Hartley warned that the threat of strikes, a lack of reform in social care and a rise in demand for emergency care are heaping pressure on the system.
But he said that the pressures cannot be solely blamed on the coronavirus pandemic.
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