Clapped-out kit, long delays, too few beds and staff: NHS enters 2021 in a sorry state

Clapped-out kit, long delays, too few beds and staff: NHS enters 2021 in a sorry state The health service was struggling even before the pandemic. It now faces the spectre of perpetual crisis

Think 2020 has been awful for the NHS? Next year is shaping up to be far worse – and most of the huge hole it’s in was dug long before Covid. The virus has merely finished off the job.

The health service does not have the beds, staff or equipment to recover the ground it lost during the first two waves of the coronavirus pandemic, but the government is blocking desperately needed improvements, and another round of organisational upheaval is on its way. The Guardian