{"id":885,"date":"2021-08-13T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/the-next-battle-for-the-nhs-sajid-javid-v-rishi-sunak\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:33:43","slug":"the-next-battle-for-the-nhs-sajid-javid-v-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/the-next-battle-for-the-nhs-sajid-javid-v-rishi-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"The next battle for the NHS: Sajid Javid v Rishi Sunak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fabian-blank-pElSkGRA2NU-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5606\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAUK GP, Dr Lizzie Toberty<\/strong> adds her thoughts on the soaring waiting lists and an exhausted workforce situation, which needs billions  to avoid a crisis. Will the health secretary persuade a hard-nosed chancellor to fund the health service?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has taken a combination of sheer grit, creativity and the adoption of some unprecedented emergency measures unthinkable at the start of last year. After 18 months of dealing with the pandemic\u2019s ravages, there are now hopes that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/nhs\">NHS<\/a>, perhaps Britain\u2019s most revered and beloved of institutions, has managed to withstand the worst of the Covid onslaught. Yet although cases remain at far lower levels than some feared they would this summer, frontline staff fear the service faces a troubling diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hospitals in many parts of the country have been struggling in recent weeks to cope with the \u201cunprecedented\u201d number of people seeking A&amp;E care. One longstanding trust leader said he had never seen his services so busy. Another boss at a rural hospital in a holiday hotspot said: \u201cWe are the busiest we have been in a summer, that\u2019s for sure, and we have seen many record days of demand.\u201d Elsewhere, private ambulance services have been enlisted to help NHS 999 crews concentrate on the sickest patients. In Cornwall, police have been helping the NHS arrange volunteers in 4&#215;4 vehicles, usually only enlisted to help during severe weather, to take patients home when they are discharged from hospital, to reduce the strain on ambulances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/aug\/08\/the-next-battle-for-the-nhs-sajid-javid-v-rishi-sunak\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK GP, Dr Lizzie Toberty adds her thoughts on the soaring waiting lists and an exhausted workforce situation, which needs billions to avoid a crisis.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,58],"tags":[44,38,39,33,34,42],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhs","tag-covid-19","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}