More Delays Than a Ryanair Flight: Why the NHS ‘Plan for Change’ Is a Plan for More of the Same

Sir Keir Starmer’s bold NHS waiting list target is already circling the drain – but don’t worry, the Department of Health has a plan! It involves hope, optimism, and absolutely no grasp of basic maths

You know things are bad when you start recognising your postman’s footsteps more than your own GP’s voice. But here I am again, discussing, yet again, the ever-growing, ever-ignored Everest of NHS waiting lists. Not because I enjoy writing about this topic like some deranged hospital groupie, but because the alternative is doing nothing, which, as it ha…