The main issue is more funding won’t help; all it does is patch things up, and the root causes of the issues never get solved.
With reform, you could remove bureaucracy where it causes issues and add it where there’s breakdowns in communications instead of just adding more funding to improve capacity in one obvious area and expose a bottleneck immediately before or after it, making the majority of the extra funding wasted
“No more money without reform,” is the actual line.
Perhaps seeing it distorted as per the headline is to be expected of the Morning Star.
you cant reform the nhs without more funding since its funding has been slashed for a decade.
The main issue is more funding won’t help; all it does is patch things up, and the root causes of the issues never get solved.
With reform, you could remove bureaucracy where it causes issues and add it where there’s breakdowns in communications instead of just adding more funding to improve capacity in one obvious area and expose a bottleneck immediately before or after it, making the majority of the extra funding wasted
agreed.
But you need a viable plan for reform. Or you are just throwing money at the problem.
Assuming the most forgiving interpretation of his statements. (not saying we should, just avoiding bias)
“No more money without reform,” could indicate he expects the NHS to agree to a policy of reform before throwing any more money at it.