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Nigel Edwards, the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think-tank, said record long waits (above) at the start of the winter show new prime minister, Liz Truss, and her deputy, Therese Coffey, “inherit an NHS in a critical condition.” Truss is expected to sanction an emergency Budget or ‘fiscal event’ between the queen’s funeral and the party conference recess (Reuters), and this could trigger an ‘emergency plan’ for the NHS. The Guardian reported a plan could include the resumption of the ‘discharge to assess’ scheme that ran during Covid-19 and care homes paid to take patients fit for discharge from an acute bed. |
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