Tory MP takes on NHS boss at select committee hearing

Things get heated as Anne Marie Morris MP challenges the Chief Executive of NHS England Amanda Pritchard over GP and dentistry access at the Public Accounts Committee.
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[@davidreid6821]

The incredulousness of Tories complaining the NHS and healthcare systems aren't fit for purpose while systemically dismantling them is infuriating to watch

[@colinsixhitter3303]

It's a well trodden tory path to privatisation. Starve the target of funding. Complain it is not fit for purpose while biggin up the private sector. last step tories say this cannot go on.

[@nathanu6759]

One word: austerity

[@juantortilla5251]

@@colinsixhitter3303 Still flogging that dead horse. The Tories mustn’t be particularly efficient seeing as we’ve been told they’ve been privatising the NHS for the last decade

[@dreddykrugernew]

Labour did the same dont make it like its only one party its all politicians...

[@NeonVisual]

Take some solace safe in the knowlege that the Tories are going to be locked out of power for a generation, and ultimately the electoral voting system will be reformed from first past the post to proportional representation so they can never have this much totalitarian control over the country and people's lives again.

[@Fudgeis1337]

It never fails to amaze me how Conservative MPs can sit on committees and browbeat underappreciated professionals for not sufficiently responding to problems that the Conservatives have created. This is the outcome of your ideological choices for the last 12 years. Yes there are massive inefficiencies in the NHS, but fixing those is the job of government also.

[@publicartcritic7993]

It's absolutely laughable.

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

A great irony is that right wingers often want smaller government because you cannot trust governments to administer efficiently. This is pure projection as this is what they do themselves. They set the parameters for the NHS often contradictory, often for party political ends. Sometimes just to massage the figures but in many cases it is tactics and not strategy, which in the long term is a mess. As any fool with eyes can see. The NHS boss is like the programming of HAL in 2001, or Robocop. You can tell she is attempting to balance conflicting agendas. But the committee are blaming her for their policies. The 'We managed to develop a vaccine' line was laughable. As if she had anything to do with it, or has any grasp of the complexities or how that cannot be projected onto an organisation as complex as the NHS.

[@MrSatnavatron]

is this woman a professional or a spad put in pace to assist the privatisation agenda ?

[@paularnold1615]

Well said....nothing like a bit of common sense!!

[@Anon-xd3cf]

most of those inefficiencies were created by conflicting goverment policies.

[@AndyH0024]

This is like an arsonist asking the fire brigade "why aren't you putting out all the fires I'm starting!"

[@cutebutevil7387]

That's the perfect analogy!

[@dedoc7143]

Damn. Just commented the same thing..

[@tilmar120]

Nail on the head. Excellent.

[@enjoyyoursleep1]

made my day!

[@jaydobbyn3975]

Blaming the NHS boss when the Tory cuts have stretched services is just ludicrous

[@mrcassette]

And the irony of a Tory lambasting someone they say isn't answering a question is hilarious.

[@leroysimon5692]

👍🏽

[@leroysimon5692]

@@mrcassette 👍🏽

[@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984]

Quite an idiotic comment. It's the Tories. No, it's Labour, sorry its the LibDems. I like phoney politics. The blame game with the public is far better than going to a football match or watching tennis at Wimbledon.

[@mikipiediaelburro7588]

The blind leading the blind

[@BunstanMcFunkstan]

Tory MPS = let's underfund the NHS for decades Also Tory MPs = hey NHS what are you doing to improve the service?

[@Matt-kq3ks]

I think there's a strategy to eventually privatise the NHS and its two-fold. 1. Underfund it for a considerable amount of time. Therefore, diminishing the staff, services, and quality 2. Convince the public its somehow nothing to do with them, and that privitisation is the silver bullet to this issue. I'm very worried the public could one day be fooled into consenting to the death of the NHS, thinking its in our best interest.

[@matthewn1805]

The Tories plan IN PROGRESS is make money for their friends from privatisation of the NHS, if you research they have made many steps in that process already, the final step is when things hit critical (due to deliberate underfunding) they say only answer is the American model. WARNING take a close look at the American model and you will see how horrendous it is for everyone but the rich. The Tories are the party of the rich and just for the rich, if your not rich don't vote for them, they will make YOU poorer.

[@Mimi25291]

This is the best comment here in a nutshell 👏

[@leroysimon5692]

👍🏽

[@bongkaz5849]

Imagine being critically underfunded yet still wasting millions each year on translation services across every language except indigenous languages like Welsh and Gaelic.

[@tonymccann1978]

What are you doing about the mess my party is causing!?!?

[@Christinebanks11]

NOTHING! 😆

[@jasonk7072]

The irony of watching a woman who is part of a government that has been strangling the NHS for over a decade, making the level of education required to become a dentist prohibitively expensive for many and making it clear to overseas professionals that foreigners are not welcome here positioning herself as some sort of champion is breathtaking. It’s gaslighting of the highest order, confirmed by the presence of Penfold from Dangermouse, a man of so little substance I’m amazed he can exist in anything other than liquid form.

[@Z_Snowball]

🤣Penfold from Dangermouse! Spot on.

[@nathandougherty7058]

@@Z_Snowball oh my God, it is Penfold!! I wondered where he had disappeared to

[@MattHerrettMusic]

Penfold, shush.

[@robtyman4281]

Shouldn't this be the other way round? ....the NHS Boss should be grilling this Tory MP. Tories - they just turn the tables on you, and convince you that their mistakes are your fault. Shameless to the core.

[@abigailcharles5522]

True

[@clairehanmer4441]

Gaslighting at its finest.

[@nicennice]

Exactly my thoughts. This should be a two-way process. But I can imagine the MP's conversation with her constituents blaming NHS bosses for doing nothing.

[@rowancrew2934]

Excellent analysis.

[@AD-kv9kj]

Gaslighting on a sinister scale.

[@rafaeldegiacomoaraujo8778]

They pretent that they haven't been in government for the past 12 years

[@BlyatimirPootin]

And 25%+ of the electorate believe them 🙄

[@Akuu820]

It's why she conveniently says it's been a problem for 15 years.

[@parametr]

Summary: - Why haven't you solved the problem the last 10 years? - Because GPs want money, you don't give us that much and you don't allow us to offer the service ourselves Tories trying to blame the NHS for the Tories' actions.

[@stephanguitar9778]

A lot of doctors who own the surgeries are tories too. I hate the tories but this privatisation of surgeries was Blair's doing and worsened in recent years when anyone could buy up as many surgeries as they liked.

[@XxfibergearxX]

12 years*

[@smidget001]

@@stephanguitar9778 Blair was a tory in a red tie.

[@leroysimon5692]

👍🏽

[@aminulhussain2277]

@@stephanguitar9778 It's clear then that Tony Blair was against what the Labour party stands for.

[@TheGravyMonster]

Sure, Ms Pritchard's answers left a lot to be desired, however the larger issue here is that the NHS has, for the last 10-12 years, been continually underfunded to the tune of around £335bn based on the average 4.3% funding growth up until 2008. If the MP wants some answers as to why there's a lack of care available then she should be asking questions of her own party's leadership.

[@outsidethebox2037]

Couldn't agree more Rory....I wish they didn't have to use such polite conversation in these meetings...if I'd been in Amanda's position I would simply have told them ' that the NHS is so fuck'd up because of you lot, for the last twelve years you inept morons have run our country into the ground.....NHS staff are leaving their profession because their wages are abysmal....whose fault is that....YOURS, you the Government are at fault, it's all down to your incompetence and you sit here trying to blame the NHS saying it's not fit for purpose' , I'm betting all those MP's use private health care. Just my opinion 😁

[@carlarthur4442]

Not underfunded its just badly managed and has been for years .

[@SuperNeilAdams]

@@carlarthur4442 They really need to update the scripts for these bots, using this decade old tory slogan makes it too obvious that they aren't sentient and capable critical thought. If anything it's saying the tories have been failing to manage the NHS properly for years which I don't think is the paymasters' intention. Silly billies.

[@SunakStarmerisacunt]

@@carlarthur4442 and underfunded, d1cksplat.

[@fuckbankers]

What happened to the Brexit Bus?

[@gmuzz]

The quality of our MPs is truly staggering. How civil servants can put up with this day in day out is mind boggling.

[@fannysquelch]

Shame on the Torys for never taking responsibility for dismantling the nhs

[@fannysquelch]

@@rachel2756 totally agree

[@jjchef68]

Such arrogance, everyone knows the NHS is underfunded and overwhelmed, if the government can't see this, we are completely in the Myre. Congrats to NHS boss for keeping her cool under such rediculous conditions.

[@21Diddley]

I've listened to as much of Anne Marie Morris trying to make the NHS take responsibility for the cuts she made as part of the Tory government as I can take at about 3.30' in. I'm very impressed with the NHS person patientlyand politely explaining what the NHS is doing to clear up AMM et al's mess, such as creating an environment where the European dentists went back to their respective countries because of Brexit, and guess what - very few British dentists want to work for the pittance they're paid for fixing teeth for the NHS because they don't get paid enough to cover their costs. AMM was a raging Brexiteer; this is what she said she wanted - we now have to train thousands more dentists to fulfill those jobs. She made this mess, she can come up with a solution instead of blaming everyone else.

[@aidanwatson3499]

This NHS England person, as much as I'm sure they make mistakes, is clearly what a competent grown up in a position of authority looks like. I wish we could elect such people.

[@fredatlas4396]

People just need to stop voting for the con party

[@BirdsOverBeach]

There's a major difference between professional grown-up doers and politicians.

[@SunakStarmerisacunt]

NHS exec is a Tory herself though, hence why she wouldn't tell the fcuking truth regarding why the NHS is on its arse after 12 years of this govt.

[@andrina118]

Do NOT Vote tory. Vote for the whoever is 2nd to the tories in your seat

[@travelwell6049]

@@andrina118 what’s the idea behind that then?

[@samwilliams4723]

The NHS needs reform but these tories have no shame that they've underfunded it for 12 years. They're a disgrace and we need to get them out.

[@graj0]

I remember when my dentist stopped doing NHS work and that was about 30 years ago. In 1991-92 the dental budget had been overspent by £190 million and the amount paid for each item of treatment was reduced by 7%. This encouraged dentists to move into private work and I'm not surprised, they were being given a pay cut. I consider anyone receiving NHS dental treatment very lucky. In my area there were some dentists who continued to do NHS work but had such long lists it was almost impossible to get any dental work done unless you paid. Too few new dentists are being trained, according to Dr Nigel Carter, CEO of the Oral Health Foundation. He added that Brexit, coronavirus, and dentists’ dissatisfaction with NHS contracts have also contributed to the shortage. Surely, if the NHS received better funding, this would never be the problem it now is

[@abigailcharles5522]

Well said

[@primordialpouch565]

You could give it all the funding in the world, but if the funds are mispent by people who are almost inept and have no clue about reality then it will stay the same, once they did away with the Matrons it was all downhill, profit and targets over health to suit pen pushers

[@graemeedgar7654]

the last NHS dentist in my town has just stated they will no longer do any NHS dentistry, I'm sure that all these incredibly rich MP;'s have excellent dentist care that they can afford using public money, probably claim it on expenses, they claim for everything else.

[@matthewfoley3929]

Love to hear a Tory undermining their own record on the NHS.

[@MartinParnham]

This is like taking a crap on your carpet and then complaining about how appalling it is that there's all this crap on the carpet.

[@AA-hg5fk]

What happened to the extra £350m a week for the NHS? I can't believe that Boris was lying!

[@Spencerlayne]

Imagine you worked some where and your boss started having a go at you because of supply issues. And you try to tell your boss "well it's your job to give us enough money and staff" but they continue to hound you and blame you. You'd think this guy's fucking nuts. I'm leaving. Just like doctors and nurses are today 🙄

[@alisdairmclean8605]

It's the British way.

[@stephanguitar9778]

Been in that situation numerous times and have walked out the door, at least 3 times within minutes of being cornered by some arrogant half wit, tory inspired manager. In fact there was one occasion the company had run out of spare parts for a major computer system (a main frame back in the 1980s) and the senior manager needed as scapegoat, ie me as I was on the site, a £££ contract at stake. Anyway within minutes of his tirade, I walked, leaving a company car in the customers carpark and a 'boiling his brains' city bank head office with his red face screaming abuse at me. I had a good laugh in the pub that night with some of my now ex colleagues.

[@bonemeringue9464]

That's what all bosses do haha

[@fredatlas4396]

@@alisdairmclean8605Its the tory way, destroy our public services and blame it on someone or something else. And sadly a lot of the general public actually fool for this bullshit. And where has all the money gone?? That the tories saved with their austerity policies, funding cuts for all public services including the NHS since 2010.

[@BirdsOverBeach]

Talkers not doing good job, getting power and pay and appearing arrogant while doers getting blamed and cornered and looking weak. That's how the world today is like.

[@candacelee969]

If Dental health is directly related to Heart Health then shouldn't dentistry be included in the health care umbrella??? If health dept./government is truly interested in preventative measures then including dental is a no brainer.

[@stephanguitar9778]

They really do like the run down of the NHS medicine and dentistry. Just putting on a show for the daily mail reader and their dick head constituents that might vote for them.

[@migi7787]

For the enlightened only....

[@karenturner8739]

..and unfortunately for some dental infection can lead to spinal infection! ☠️

[@doreenhollywood7459]

I am getting so angry watching this. These tories are a disgrace

[@mathieuleader8601]

At the 2019 GE Jeremy Corbyn offered a policy of free dentristry which is why I voted for Corbyn

[@darkdestroyer6634]

Did he explain how he was going to find the necessary dentists whilst still supporting Brexit which had driven many of them away?

[@stefanward7838]

@@darkdestroyer6634 Yes, considering all his policies were fully costed

[@gHGhej]

@@darkdestroyer6634 Oh sorry but I kinda have to as you said that idiotic argument. Brexit is not the at fault as it is their right to chose where to work. So what is the underlying issue? Money and the society that allows such members the right to refuse to treat people because of payment being too low. So being part of a trading block fixed that? No! It reinforces the right of them to make money against people's health. That is why at creation of the NHS, doctors were happy to let poor people die so they could work privately as well to make the bank. Capitalism and health care do not mix well. The EU is pro capitalism.

[@vicsomeone]

So blind to the fact that she's a part of the problem.

[@jpgduff]

She knows exactly what she's doing. Someone needs to step up and tell these scum to STFU and listen and not allow them to grandstand.

[@lupinbrabablebix9840]

@SpamMullet and the creep mark François on hand to make sure the impetus is going in the right direction

[@lupinbrabablebix9840]

I always like to put the cedilla in his name as it denotes he’s a foreigner, foreigner’s don’t bother me but he does, not because he’s a foreigner but an annoying pugnacious little twat and putting the tale on the C serves to remind him and everyone else he comes from immigrant stock,( also see Nigel Faragé)

[@migi7787]

🌹❤️

[@Mistah_john]

a career manager, on £250k per annum. certainly talks the talk. one problem with the NHS is the amount of Yes-Men ending up in management. so she talks a load of shite instead of saying "we need more funding, we need more staff, the staff need more pay"

[@cutebutevil7387]

To give the Tories credit, they'll stick to their bs answers no matter what. Strong and stable.

[@eliotpalfreman1232]

A stable delusion indeed

[@matt41252]

What an absolute joke - making it out as though chronic underfunding is the NHS boss's fault. Comical.

[@jak1590]

Yet again Tories not taking ownership of a crisis of their own making. Who has been in charge for the last 12 years, obviously not the current Tories then. Unbelievable.

[@Idk-ys7rt]

#General election NOW!!!

[@TrezenEN]

Since 2010 NHS spending has increased by 0.9% per year. Before the tories the increase stood at 4% per year. This is why at the end of the last Labour government the NHS satisfaction rate was at it's highest ever, and why now you are lucky to get a GP appointment within 2 weeks, or be seen in A&E within 12 hours. Anybody continuing to claim that tories should remain in power is, to be frank, delusional.

[@TheRepublicOfYhonai]

Big respect to the NHS Boss here, she's under massive pressure to keep the NHS ship going despite a hostile government trying to underfund and gaslight them at every opportunity.

[@gtube2306]

This is classic TAIL WAGGING THE DOG! We have hear a tory minister demanding to know what the NHS Executive has done about dentistry. Forgetting a) The government make the policy & the NHS deliver. b) Thatcher & the tories made dentistry a unfunded side line of the NHS. Not considered important to health. The NHS for 12 years has been systematically defunded by the tories, with promises of 40 virtual hospitals which will never appear, a catestophic government reaction to covid (Don't forget the services regularly perform exercises supposed to test against major incidents, and in fact one was performs supposedly successfully just before covid hit), PPE crisis, lock down (because the underfunded slimmed down NHS could not cope), presently excessively long waiting lists (again because of decades of underfunding, failing to train doctors & nurse, and IR35). All these failings are government inflincted represented by the person saying what are you doing about it! Amanda Pritchard must value her job because I would have responded it's your mess, give us the money & permission to fund dentistry with social services, GP and Hospital facilities. May be if this government stopped stressing out joe public the ques and nation would get healthy and cut down the demand for NHS extra funding. We have a police service which has become social services chasing the mentally ill, beds blocked because social services are under resourced and nothing works because of government piss poor planning (PPP) and bad planning always looking for a quick fix or gas lighting the public with promises tomorrow which never comes.

[@fredatlas4396]

I no longer have an NHS dentist. Over some yrs now I've had a lot of dentists because they keep leaving or going private. And now the last one left so I don't have a dentist at all. And I can't afford to pay the monthly bill for a private dentist, and apparently there isn't one available even if I could afford it. So I currently don't have a dentist. I looked up the reasons my dentist gave me online. And it seems the real problem is our tory government since 2010 has cut the funding for NHS dentistry and made the terms and conditions for dentists doing work on NHS such that they are leaving

[@biancathomas7934]

This also happened to my 74 yr old mum recently in the last month, my 76 yr old mother in law also (we're in the South West), no NHS dentists in the area. Their NHS dentist they had been with for 40 odd years over the past 10 yrs has gone more and more private, with NHS care being provided by foreign agency staff. Terrible service ensued, poor treatment, cancellations made by the dental team, mixup with charges, being chased with fines for dentistry that had been settled at the time, double bookings. To then be told they no longer are listed on the dental books for the practice. Appallingly absurd that this is happening. Quite shocking to listen to the Tory BS that their measures back in July are providing a first step to relief from the above. It doesn't seem to be finding it's way to the citizens of the UK in desperate need of treatment!

[@fredatlas4396]

@@biancathomas7934 We are in desperate need of a new government. No more tories, they have to go and never return. Its about time more people woke up to this and stopped voting for the con-servative party. I've never voted for the con party in my entire life

[@dalightmaiso1553]

I remember that under labour you could walk into a dentist and get a same day appointment

[@1985dafydd]

I remember someone taking Blair to task over this issue on Question Time and him pretending he'd do something about it. I don't have much hope for a Keir led Labour government either tbh. Don't get me wrong Labour will surely be better for the NHS than the Tories but I'm not expecting much.

[@ohnezuckerohnefett]

Imagine GP replaced by 'Fire Services' or 'Police' and see how ludicrous this MP is.

[@1Ringsmith]

A large number of patients will be sen on the same day because practices will only make same day appointments, it might take 20 days of trying to ring in to get a "same day" appointment... Cynical beyond belief !

[@migi7787]

I'm àfter two months and cannot get a mere GP appointment...

[@bodins]

This minister has no clue how the system works. She wants solutions instantly, just doesn't work that way Also not accepting an answer that goes into detail is ridiculous. That minister wants soundbites and promises, what she got was a justified and well thought out response from someone who actually knows what the hell is going on

[@MrDeadhead1952]

She's not a minister, she's an ordinary MP trying to impress her constituents whilst failing to acknowledge that she has consistently voted for Budgets which underfunded the NHS and have created the situation she's moaning about.

[@stephanguitar9778]

She reminds me of an arrogant magistrate I was up against after having de-taxed my car and had it parked on the grass. She 'deemed' that I had used the car continuously for 6 months since it was untaxed. Because I had brought the road law book with me to prove her wrong, she went ballistic and gave me a double fine. That was my first real taste of tory arrogance.

[@bodins]

@@MrDeadhead1952 thanks for the clarification, you're 100% right

[@MartinParnham]

Asking for an answer and then saying "that answer is too long; it's unacceptable" is a whole new level of arrogance. Either they want to hear the answers or they don't. Probably the latter, come of think of it.

[@kha30s22]

Conservatives in general

[@aureliuswright1456]

What does she mean “the fact that there’s more appointment doesn’t matter”? Yes, there are more appointments being made and at the same time staffing numbers are going down. However, there are ongoing transformation work to address the issues, and this is constantly done even in spite of Conservative mismanagement.

[@mickeysmouse4800]

Where’s the additional money the government promised the NHS? How is the government going to encourage dentists and doctors to come to the UK to work to fill the vacancies, seeing as though they haven’t bothered training more domestic ones to date? How is the government going to reduce the numbers of doctors and dentists resigning?

[@liina640]

Gone to private care.

[@katetorode8411]

Haha tori saying it shouldn't take 15yrs. 12 were tori yrs ffs

[@PGflips]

This is beyond belief.....

[@KingChong83]

This Tory lady is a moral vacuum isn't she

[@scottmacmillan3042]

Absolutely incredible 😢

[@nigelandrews5617]

Think that says it all!

[@fubar.1]

If you think its getting cold, just remember you can never be as cold as a politicians heart.

[@chrisdd15690]

The irony of her saying you didn’t answer the question, you’re repeating what you’re saying. Did she see PMQ’s yesterday?

[@ocher8931]

These politicians can’t act like the problems occur in some sort of vacuum, as though they are detached from it. They have continued to disincentivise the caring professions for years; stupid decision after stupid decision. It’s national negligence and they are very reluctant to take accountability for their part. Now this NHS chief is behaving slippery, but to ask her to account for 30+ years of failure is obscene. Problems like this don’t happen over 6-12 months 😂😂

[@MrDeadhead1952]

In what way was she being slippery, the MP was asking her questions she was clearly not in the position to answer. If providing improved Dentistry services is dependant on persuading Dentists in private practice to accept NHS contracts and increasing the number available by increased training, then the timing of when improved services can be offered is dependant on the take up of the contracts and numbers qualifying from the increased training courses. Neither are predictable with any accuracy and by there nature will change overtime. It was a stupid question and no one with any semblance of intelligence would have asked it. It's especially galling when the question comes from a member of the party whose policies have created the problem in the first place.

[@stephanguitar9778]

This NHS woman should stop tiptoeing around the massive elephants in the room. Give the tory cow some stick like Mick Lynch does.

[@lee9650]

Surely the questioning should be the other way round.

[@ko6el]

Cos the Tories haven't been in charge for 12 years excuse me while I bang my head on this wall

[@sammydingdong4540]

Jack The Ripper asking why there is not enough women to rip up ....................

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

I live in America, but have known for years, that they were trying to bring american style healthcare/privatization to the NHS.

[@StuartWalker1]

What she's trying to say to the tory MPs is that you can't fix a service that has been systematically underfunded for the last 12 years by saying "when" a lot. She's also skating over the fact that the dogwhistle politics of saying we aren't allowing any more immigration is that you don't get an influx of cheap dentists from abroad.

[@timmarsh2882]

So when can the general public expect to be able to see a dentist? As it ain't happening at moment it's impossible to see an NHS dentist n Yorkshire.

[@thekidd7]

What is Mark Francois doing anywhere outside a circus?

[@king1and]

Still don't worry, they are building 40 new hospitals lol.

[@chigglywiggly]

Being a Tory means not having to say sorry.

[@MartinParnham]

Tony Blair (and I don't want to open up a debate into him) said once "the only difference between compassionate conservatism and conservatism is that under compassionate conservatism they tell you they're not going to help you but they're really sorry about it."

[@bobbybates2614]

If I remember the tories were hollering about obese people and take a look at Coffey nothing is said about her

[@LC-rl6hb]

Since the liars, over the last 2 years, I've done with them all!

[@boxingsage5675]

Remember the Welsh torrie trying this same nonsense with a labour mp and was well and truly put in his place! This torrie needed to hear some home truths.

[@DanJ88]

How on earth did Francois get on the Public Accounts Committee?!

[@MartinParnham]

I was thinking exactly the same. Boggles the mind how he's anywhere near any committee. Still, I guess he's good at getting far-right nutcases into positions of power, I'll give him that.

[@starmersbarber]

It is utterly astonishing! Surely the most inappropriate person for any role whatsover in public office! A dangerous, nasty and ignorant fool.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

The message from the tory Nasti Party seems to be: Having been in power for 12 years, and having done nothing to improve NHS dentistry, we recently decided to launch a plan to paper over the cracks, just to make sure we can make it sound like we’re doing something. In addition to this, we are also discussing papering over some other cracks. However, we haven’y actually begun to look for the cracks, so we have no idea of the scale or nature of the task to hand.

[@wordsoflove8787]

She has a twitter, let your discontent voices be heard.

[@darren8453]

- "When will we see these changes have an impact?" "Well, we have this policy I've been talking about?" - "Okay, so when will we see the effects?" "Oh no, that's just the first step of a multi-step policy" Just answer the question already.

[@julezpanda14]

There isn't one single dentist taking NHS patients in an area at least 25miles radius where I live! I have to suck me sugar puffs 😂🤭 I shouldn't jest about it but if I don't I'd crack up!! My daughter has a huge cyst growing on her overlies and she's on at least a 2yr waiting list, it's already so big it's causing her problems, and all they can do is keep scanning . I worked for the NHS and it beggars belief the state Tories have put us in. Twelve years of Tory rule too long!!!

[@jolantahill787]

ThankYou for sharing👌👍

[@andyburton3179]

I agree the total absence of acceptance of government responsibility for the problems is reprehensible. I thought the leader of the NHS showed true quality and just showed the gulf in intellect, behaviour and compassionate culture between the two.

[@heliotropezzz333]

The Tories act as if the plight of the NHS is nothing to do with them. Lol. I fear dentists though when they get paid more for more complex work, because there's always the risk they will do more complex work when it's unnecessary.

[@tomtheeagle1]

A lot of the electorate do too! That's why they keep getting voted back in, in spite of all the negative evidence stacked against them.

[@joannabenson2279]

Numbers of GPs have only gone up because retired GPs have been put back on the register because of the Covid 'pandemic'. Most of them aren't practicing.

[@rupertharvey4506]

They know what they are doing.

[@gaspode505]

Last time I went to Turkey. Half of tourist on plane flew to see doctor/dentist , other half went to some sort of plastic surgery

[@peterhagan8454]

15 years of which 12 is tory rule

[@Idk-ys7rt]

Yep.

[@verystripeyzebra]

She said 15, but she knew it was only 12

[@jafboxed]

Pathetic country when we have to ask thieves what’s happened to all the money.

[@abigailcharles5522]

The thieves have been in government now for over ten years

[@jafboxed]

@@abigailcharles5522 12+

[@willo219]

Please bring Mick Lynch in again, it was hard to watch Amanda try and defend the farce the tories have created!

[@julieyates405]

The basics like dentistry, podiatry, physiotherapy, pain management needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up. Free at the point of care, available in the communities patients live in, delivered by professionals who care about their patients..... Instead of a lot of talk the talk, piloting initives now, is essential. If they work, roll them out more widely, but stop the nonsense, it's killing us! Lots of the contracts don't work. Face up to facts about that and sort it out. My brilliant dentist is on her knees, serving her community to the best of her ability, short of staff because they're not paid properly.

[@migi7787]

Best solution I guess, spot on!

[@christopherjohnson8896]

I'm sure that there are qualified dentists, health workers, doctors, nurses, care workers who would be eager to come and work in this country, from abroad?

[@vicsomeone]

Did you miss the part where England told the immigrant workforce to bugger off back home? Idiot.

[@stephanguitar9778]

Brexit says no. I can imagine this tory cow's constituents mostly voted brexit.

[@christopherjohnson8896]

Ironic isn't it...smdh....

[@PopularesVox]

The NHS is completely top heavy and was made worse under Blair. The amount of money NHS managers get is astounding, whilst the pay and conditions of nurses, cleaners, health care workers is abysmal.

[@the_manaburn]

The Tories made the mess and are now complaining about it.

[@emperorstar765]

More Hospital needed all over

[@matt41252]

This NHS boss is too weak. Tell the Tories how it is; the NHS needs more money.

[@cathlaurs9754]

Why did nobody mention severe underfunding?

[@MartinParnham]

Marky Francois audibly coughing just makes him seem like an even bigger tool.

[@emperorstar765]

NHS'need more carer'and Nurses

[@stephanieterry8844]

I sign up with a nhs dentist to be told I wouldn't get an appointment for 3 years

[@mickyfrazer786]

We've rubbished the system and given you real terms budget cuts. We have savaged the social system while population has grown. So why have you not performed the impossible and resolved things positively! We threw money at our friends in private drug companies and that worked for the pandemic, why does giving you less money and more stress not help you? The CEO should call them out!

[@BBrewster85]

Mark Francois there beating his Flappy Bird high score to keep himself amused..

[@clivejohnson6468]

Reforms, another word for cost cutting and moving the service provision to the private sector tor, as the expectations get lower. Did Dido Harding run off with all the money?

[@junglie]

Yep hit the nail on the head there.

[@deefman123]

its wonderful when tories encounter answers delivered in a similar form to their own when under pressure.

[@normanbott]

I believe it was Jeremy Hunt who started the decline of NHS dentistry as part of the program of privatisation. Post COVID, I've had to resort to private dental care.

[@davidsmith8376]

In 2012, Morris was featured in an investigation by the BBC into MPs who owned property in London but claimed expenses for renting a separate property in the city. She was listed as one of 22 MPs who were undertaking the practice, which was legal, following a cap on the amount MPs could claim for mortgage costs. (Wikipedia).

[@DemiMee]

Maybe bringing back free university study would be worth suggesting to combat the total lack of professionals and those still doing work being so badly over worked due to this. ???!! Or is that to joined up ? Just more fragmented contract out policy, that way we can still say we spend the money on the 'NHS' while infact giving Exaggerated pay outs to private international health providers. . Who also buy our patients health records in order to maximize profit areas!!?

[@ExploreGamesAndMore]

I don't know how she can be so diplomatic in her responses - I doubt I could be.

[@MrSatnavatron]

Watching the guy on the right -- he is an architect of Brexit and has made a personal killing on the Privatisation vehicles

[@Lloyd.Browne]

At some point, someone will mention Bloody Brexit. What the fuc# did they think was going to happen?

[@stuartmcculloch9861]

It’s like poring money into a black hole, a business which is mismanaged by the NHS, not managed by the government High cost facilities packed with high technology and used less than fifty percent of the time If it was a private business it would be working 24/7 and obtaining value for money

[@paulwright9106]

I do not want to be forced, to go to the private sector for dentist treatment. I am a NHS dentist user.

[@jasonh9518]

There are certainly legitimate questions to be asked of the nhs in terms of how it's spending. But clearly the resources it's being allocated aren't enough, with a ageing, majority overweight/obese as well as a growing population the demand is only going to increase. It's depressing no doubt, but if you are healthy make sure you make the most of it while you can

[@1inchPunchBowl]

Total current healthcare expenditure in the UK accounted for 10.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 Among the EU Member States, Germany (11.7 %) and France (11.1 %) Sweden 10.87%, Belgium 10.66%, Austria 10.43%, & Netherlands 10.17% all had higher healthcare expenditure relative to GDP in 2019. among the EU Member States, the largest expansions in current healthcare expenditure per inhabitant between 2012 and 2019 were recorded in Romania and the Baltic Member States. So lets cut any crap about how much we spend on the NHS.

[@stevenhattersley6110]

Funny how I remember over 13yrs ago I could see my GP face to face if not the same day it would be definitely the next day and I could also see my dentist at short notice but now … after 13yrs have past under Tory rule our NHS has been sooo stripped back and slowly privatised or sold off you can’t even get through the door in a hospital can’t see a GP for 2 weeks minimum and everyone I know my self included was struck off our dentists because of covid! This Tory government gave the people the vote on Brexit and made a massive campaign about it in 2019 with even buses advertising that we would get 320million a day that would go straight into the NHS which works out to be about 1.15Trillion a year and yet it seems that money has only gone to their top 1% mates in dodgy PPE contracts and back handers it makes me sick! And all these politicians have gone up more than £20,000 a year and get expenses yet hospital staff have to pay for their own parking at work and work overtime for no extra pay and they say there is no money for them if people vote for these vile people next election we are all doomed for sure