The PM says he wants to fix the health service, but there are no easy answers, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
, the huge cheques for health spending have not kept pace with demand or inflation.
One of our viewers who got in touch with us won't be the only person in the country to be asking "how have they allowed this to happen?".Second, there's perhaps a mismatch between the sense of the action the government wants to take now and the scale of the issues. Ministers also point to another £500m to deal with social care - but that was promised in the summer and only around half the cash has reached the front line.Can the way the health service works really last into the next decade and beyond?Last updated: Friday 6 JanuaryData for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.
Each nation has different target times and ways of categorising data for the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.
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