you're misunderstanding the issue. NHS funding _always_ increases. Its not increased by enough and social care (a different budget) has been cut meaning that hospitals have to deal with patients that have nowhere to be discharged.

This is all due to 2008 can kicking. The needed to cut, didn't want to get blamed for cutting so just massively cut central funding for councils who were left to make the hard decisions. Year on year the cuts increased the drive for "efficiencies" grew. There is no slack left and nothing left to cut that isn't obvious.

I hope that someone learns that just because you've taken the cost of the balance sheet doesn't mean the problem it was solving goes away, it just ends up as an inefficiency somewhere else, in this case in the NHS where staff cannot discharge perfectly healthy patients.

Cash doesn't help bedflow if it's not going towards the places required for getting people out of hospital… which I've already said is now a local issue.

Job deterioration, Brexit and the pension cap have all lead to an increase in more expensive locum cover. Few people want to be locked into a job where you have a daily meeting to be shouted at by your site team for not discharging people who have nowhere to go.

Still not in line with what is required. An aging population which is also living longer couple with poor staff retention and management has left it in a much worse state that 12 years ago.

None of those figures are per capita, so it's ignoring population growth.