Exactly, the NHS is only going downhill because the dominant ideology among MPs has been that the NHS is the first place to get gutted for cheap savings. A lot

Exactly, the NHS is only going downhill because the dominant ideology among MPs has been that the NHS is the first place to get gutted for cheap savings. A lot of very efficient systems were removed and farmed out for "cheaper" private systems, that end up being rather costly in the long term with respect to increased error, price rising, and all the myriad ways incompetence and explicit money-grabbing messes with healthcare. They gutted the administration systems and now doctors have to work overtime on the weekends just to get their notes in the system, and now because doctors are overworked, they're putting more work into the hands of the incredibly underqualified PAs. And on top of all of this, repeated mismanagement of the money that is distributed to the NHS — including, of all things, incredibly inept bartering, putting hospitals on a "target system" where underfunded hospitals are given less money for not hitting targets, etc. It's a complete joke, but every step was damned near deliberate for the case of farming public money into the pockets of the friends of MPs.