It's important to look at other factors than the opinions of healthcare staff, of course, but the gloomy reports are not coming from nowhere.
I'm not saying that they are coming from nowhere - just that anecdotal evidence is exactly that. People who report problems aren't lying, but the broader picture of people's experience of the NHS might not be represented by these reports.
Morale may well be the worst your Dad has ever seen it where he works, but I simply can't see how this can be the case everywhere when just over 10 years ago we were dealing with a chronic shortage of nurses, widespread hospital closures, massive underfunding, ridiculously long waiting lists and a beds crisis every winter.
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I'm not saying that they are coming from nowhere - just that anecdotal evidence is exactly that. People who report problems aren't lying, but the broader picture of people's experience of the NHS might not be represented by these reports.
Morale may well be the worst your Dad has ever seen it where he works, but I simply can't see how this can be the case everywhere when just over 10 years ago we were dealing with a chronic shortage of nurses, widespread hospital closures, massive underfunding, ridiculously long waiting lists and a beds crisis every winter.