Why the NHS Can’t Build a Successful System on Staff Goodwill Alone

Why the NHS can’t build a successful system on staff goodwill alone

During the Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in 200,000 deaths, the UK’s healthcare system came “close to collapse”. As the inquiry chair warns ministers that there may not be a workforce “willing or able to” get the NHS through another pandemic, experts tells Rebecca Thomas while so many staff are on the brink of burnout

NHS 'cannot cope with another pandemic' warn top doctors - as surgeries across Britain issued urgent meningitis alert

Top NHS doctors have warned the health service is in a "perilous" state and would struggle if another pandemic broke out.Rising waiting lists, overrun A&E departments and an increase in corridor care have left the NHS it in a much worse position if another pandemic were to break out, the doctors say.Dr Ian Higgison, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, revealed he had seen no indication the NHS was prepared for another pande…