New PM will inherit an NHS in its most challenging state for decades, warn NHS leaders

New PM will inherit an NHS in its most challenging state for decades, warn NHS leaders The incoming Prime Minister will urgently need to grip the crisis facing the NHS ahead of winter by providing the extra support that hospitals, ambulances, mental health and GP services need to deal with the intense and rising pressure they are under. 

NHS leaders say the Prime Minister will inherit an NHS in the most challenging state it has been in for decades, with front-line services facing up to lengthening waiting times and other pressures which are undermining the NHS being the best it can be for our patients. NHS Confederation

See also:

• BMA urges new Prime Minister to tackle NHS pressures, or face an uncontrollable crisis this winter BMA
• Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay Oral Statement on urgent and emergency care Department of Health and Social Care
• New Prime Minister needs a plan to prevent the cost-of-living crisis becoming a health crisis The Health Foundation
• New PM Liz Truss must act now to protect health service Royal College of Nursing
• New prime minister: Seven big questions for Liz Truss BBC News
• You've got 10 days to avoid NHS strike call, nurse chief tells Liz Truss The Daily Mail
• What are the biggest issues facing the NHS and what has Liz Truss promised to do to fix them? Evening Standard
• What policies will Liz Truss pursue as Britain’s new prime minister? The Guardian
• Health Secretary is told frontline staff believe NHS has 'collapsed'  The Independent
• What will Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister mean for nurses and the NHS? Nursing in Practice
• NHS leaders warn new PM inherits ‘an NHS in its worst state in living memory’ Nursing Notes
• New PM will 'inherit an NHS in its most challenging state for decades' PharmaTimes