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Any further funding for the NHS is welcome and will make some difference albeit not a massive difference.
It will make the better contributions as long as it is targetted at care and it is ensured that trust managers don't cream off more NHS resources.

Therein lies a greater problem with the NHS,the trust management and the staff it takes that are connected to same.
Get more of them out into hands on care and cut the management numbers,making them much more accountable for their negligence and in fact incompetence too a fair bit of the time.

That will take time and this govt. will not do much in that area, it is an area I hope Labour will look at more and also since Labour are into not only the treatment of the sick in hospital but also the wider care of same,that all new funding going into the NHS by Labour,will be targetted and ensured it is used for the hands on or after care process.

Not all,by any means, are poor but the trust management of hospitals is to blame for a lot that goes wrong,these people are almost a waste of space.
I said a long time ago, when visiting a hospital, some of the 'management' staff could not even direct visitors to a ward.
All they do is seemingly wander round with files and clipboards,those people are a drain on NHS resources,taking positions away from the nursing, hands on care, that is really needed on wards etc;

Any new funding will assist in part however and help make a difference albeit not a big one.
This funding to be announced by George Osborne won't even bring the NHS back to the ring fenced power of funding that was in place in 2010,since value has been stripped down with higher costs of living and no growth for almost 3 years since late 2010.
Which is why this is too little, too late from a now panicked govt. as to the NHS with much clearly going wrong more and more each month.

As Labour state, funding needs to be increased but also the whole health care strategy too, that is why Andy Burnham intends to take in the health and social care process too.
As he said, you have elderly people almost imprisoned in hospital for a time when they needn't be,simply because the resources are too slow to be implemented for them to be at home again.
Also lots of other areas of after care too.

Something that has been made worse by the top down re-organisation of the NHS,that was pledged to be not going to happen,David Cameron's words.
Then he did them.
There is a mess to sort out again in the NHS as there was in 1997, when the Conservative left the NHS on its knees with wards closed and a shortage of nursing staff.

Well, here we go again and no way should this coalition, either party in it, be trusted with the NHS.
Labour overlooked some things as to the NHS and may do so again but they still did far more,and in fact a great deal more, to build it up over their 13 years in power than the last 2 Conservative led govts. have ever done.

The NHS will never be 100% perfect, you cannot have such a massive organisation like the NHS and not have things go wrong at times somewhere.
It would be great if that wasn't so but overall the NHS is a fantastic asset and one that should always be nurtured and not brought down, and in fact run down by govts. such as this present govt has,for political purposes.

No more full re-organisations of the NHS, of course things need to be improved and evolved into better care practices but top down re-organisations,such as the chaotic and unnecessary one this govt. carried out,only cause confusion, delays and bigger problems in the NHS rather than serve any real purpose of better and improved care.