The constantly regiving gift of a PM that rhymes with ‘pharma’, not only produces headlines, but provides a new chapter of the enduring industry/NHS soap opera.
Kier Starmer inherits an NHS with manifold challenges – deficit finance, demoralised and striking staff, overloaded capacity, insufficient activity, rampant inefficiency, swelling demand, mental health and diabetes epidemics, erratic access, sharp inequalities, poor estate management, strangulated capital investment – and a long list of local issues.
Thus, in the NHS commentary zone, think tanks, academics, politicians – even the odd ex-PM – are weighing on the exam question – ‘How do we fix the NHS’?
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