Also strange how long waiting lists are given as evidence for how it can't work, when 15 years ago there were stringent targets that were routinely met in 95% of cases, including:
- max 4 hour wait in A&E
- max 2 weeks referal-to-treatment time for cancer
- max 2 days to get a GP appointment
Building databases to track these was my day job then, so RTT figures were very familiar. I also personally remember getting a same day GP appointment regularly when my teenage sons were little - a far cry from current experiences of maybe getting one in a couple of weeks.
It seems to me that perhaps it is not the NHS in concept that cannot work, but its current iteration. I'm not saying that's easy to fix, or that money alone would do it. But it's patently untrue that it cannot work, because it definitely has and was just 15 years ago.
