{"id":142256,"date":"2025-05-29T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142256\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:12:11","slug":"how-labour-should-save-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142256\/","title":{"rendered":"How Labour should save the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Reform UK, the party leading in Britain\u2019s polls, has an uninspiring slogan: \u201cBritain is broken\u201d. The fact that even the populists\u2019 bumper sticker carries none of the hope of \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d says a lot about Britons\u2019 mood.\u00a0Nothing illustrates the malaise more strikingly than the state of their beloved National Health Service (NHS). Hospitals are crumbling, sometimes literally. Waiting lists in England are 7.4m, twice as long as before the covid-19 pandemic. Public satisfaction has collapsed from 70% in 2010 to 21% in 2024. \u201cBroken\u201d was also how Wes Streeting, Labour\u2019s health secretary, described the service on his first day in office last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK, the party leading in Britain\u2019s polls, has an uninspiring slogan: \u201cBritain is broken\u201d. The fact that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[748,105,4348,695,391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-142256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-leaders","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114592949993337512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}