One area that I think is interesting to look at, aside from overall budget, is bed capacity and nursing staff numbers. According to Statista: Bed capacity is

One area that I think is interesting to look at, aside from overall budget, is bed capacity and nursing staff numbers. According to Statista: Bed capacity is significantly lower than at the turn of the century, but more damage was done there by Labour than the Tories [1]. The numbers of nurses has steadily increased in the last twenty years under both Labour and the Tories [2]. So if there are many more nurses per bed than there were twenty years ago, why is patient safety one of the issues they are currently in dispute with the government over? I don't know the answer to this, but I think we need to know. It is, like teachers, that nurses are spending so much time on non-clinical bureaucracy that the don't have time to nurse? [1] - https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4302/M6SgVh.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4302/M6SgVh.png [2] - https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/7041/40e6JF.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/7041/40e6JF.png