British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed, during an emergency meeting with experts and officials in the health sector, in Downing Street, that “the status quo will not solve the challenges we face.”
He pointed out that “during the” Covid 19 “pandemic, we had to be bold and radical in the way we did things in order to overcome it. I think we need the same bold and radical approach now,” to find solutions to the severe crisis in the health system in Britain. He emphasized that “Together today, we can identify the things that will make a big difference for the country and for every family, in the short and medium term.”
The public health system has been underfunded for years, and emergency services in hospitals are overwhelmed by cases of influenza and Covid-19. And the lists of patients who need surgeries have become long, while the country is witnessing a protest movement for nurses, the first in more than 100 years, in which paramedics also participate; Against the background of the crisis of the high cost of living.
In an effort to end the strikes affecting the health sector and other sectors, the government also called on unions to hold discussions on Monday.