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Written by Shaun Lintern July 03, 2025
Service failure won't materialise at scale Hello and good morning,
Regular readers will know I am extremely worried about the pressures being seen across the NHS at the moment. Those fears have only worsened in the last week, as ministers confirmed plans to end lockdown, despite forecasts of 100,000 infections a day in a few weeks' time.
So if we are in a crisis and the NHS is collapsing why hasn't anyone noticed? As always, contact me in confidence here with thoughts and tips. ![]() Waits at A&Es are becoming longer as hospitals run out of beds and staff
Headlines about a crisis in the NHS or the collapse of hospital services have been a regular feature of winter for many years. Now we’re seeing similar headlines in the summer – well in The Independent at least. Some parts of Fleet Street seem to be weirdly ignorant of the clear evidence that hospitals are buckling under pressure.
First off consider the NHS is not one single organisation but hundreds spread about the country, doing different things, at different speeds and often at variable quality.
It will be in tears of the nurses who go home every shift worried tomorrow might be the day they make a mistake like their colleague.
It will be in the cries of other patients left in their urine soaked beds for too long because the nurses can only be in one place at a time.
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