The NHS is also suffering as a result of other departments' cutbacks: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/13/hospital-beds-england-occupied-patients-fi

The NHS is also suffering as a result of other departments' cutbacks: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/13/hospital-beds-england-occupied-patients-fit-discharge https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/13/hospital-bed... The tl;dr here is that there's a striking number of patients in hospitals (up to 30% in some areas) which are ready to be discharged from hospital, but cannot yet be discharged since they're waiting for the availability of social services that aren't handled by the NHS. I've mentioned it in all my comments here but this is the cost of austerity, and it's making healthcare not just worse but more expensive.