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Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2019 | The King's Fund < The long-running @NatCen BSA survey has released its latest findings. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/public-satisfaction-nhs-social-care-2019
This may not get much media space, but will probably risk being hijacked by political hacks once this crisis is over.
The obvious thing to say is that the research (July-October 2019) took place after the new money for the NHS had been announced (and announced and announced), first in June 2018 by PM May,
and almost immediately after the election of Mr Johnson to replace Mrs May as PM. You will not forget that Mr Johnson announced on his victory that there would be 40 new hospitals and 50,000 more nurses for the NHS.
“My job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home to pay for the costs of care and so I am announcing now – on the steps of Downing Street – that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan ...
“ ... we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve.”
Nine months on, there is no sight of this plan for social care.
The 40 new hospitals is in reality, six partial redevelopments. https://fullfact.org/health/six-hospitals-not-forty/
19,000 of the 50,000 more nurses are actually existing NHS nurses who they Government now assumes will not quit. https://fullfact.org/election-2019/50000-more-nurses-claim-conservative-manifesto-accurate/
These inconvenient truths got far less airtime than they should have done because so much of our media is, frankly, shit at its job.
