30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS
Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%
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Why is everyone so anti progress?
Everyone is not 'anti-progress', unless the 'progress' you mean is the type we see Elon Musk engaging in in the US.
But wait, the combination of 'austerity' and privatisation both parties (red and blue Tory) have engaged in for decades now is exactly a slow-paced what Musk is speed-running in the US. And the UK gradually moves down the global affluence tables while the rich get richer because of it.
So I guess maybe that is why everyone is so anti 'progress'. You just forgot the necessary quotation marks around the work 'progress'.
I also thought the whole sacking of 30K government workers seemed a trumpian or muskian action, and its been obvious for a long time that private healthcare has been boosted and touted as a valid choice, while the NHS has festered and fallen apart - which was a political choice. Now productivity is effected and the red tories are going after the disabled rather than fixing the NHS so that the post covid populace might be healthy enough to work.
Tldr
Honestly, nothing much of value in that comment, just a long winded version of "labour=Tories=republicans=MAGA so Labour bad"
Despite how a lot of articles about this are worded, this isn't just another tory-esque NHS cut. NHS England is an independent governing body for the NHS created by the Tories about a decade ago. It's job was effectively to delegate responsibility for NHS management decisions away from the government.
So whether this ends up helping or harming the NHS will basically come down to how smoothly the important roles from NHS England can be covered by the civil service, and how well the health secretary is able to utilise the more direct control over the NHS that he'll inherit.