Wes Streeting has been the local MP [Ilford North] in which the above hospital sits, for nearly 10 years and has been Secretary of State for Health since July 2024.
On Friday January 24 2025, The Times, had the above shocking images, and:
It is 4pm on a Tuesday and the tea lady is slowly wheeling her metal trolley up the crowded corridors of the A&E unit at Queen’s Hospital in Romford. She stops one by one at the makeshift bedsides of the patients crammed in beside one another, offering tea, coffee and biscuits while they wait — and wait and wait. There are 23 patients lying on trolleys across three separate corridors in this sprawling maze of an emergency department, waiting for a proper bed to become available on the hospital’s overflowing wards. Almost all are elderly and frail. Some are hooked up to drips, others curled up on their beds. They look confused and sad.
No NHS Scotland hospital has, to my knowledge, ever been subject to such media coverage, with photographic evidence of corridor care..
Local MPs often write on behalf of constituents to seek better treatment in their local NHS. They often visit and speak to managers. You’d think after 10 years Wes might have got some improvements for his people. Local MPs get media coverage. They are influential people. Has Wes, maybe, been distracted by other things? Climbing the greasy pole within the Labour Party elite?
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton since last century (1999) and Scottish Labour’s health spokesperson, is never out of the media talking about healthcare and NHS Scotland.
Might she offer Wes some advice?
He does, he claims, respect her highly.
Go on Jackie! Be a friend.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Westminster underfunded the NHS for 14 years, The unionists supported it.
The SNPGov had to try and mitigate this policy. Westminster funded Covid £270Billion over two years. £Billions wasted on non scrutinised contracts.
Westminster wasting £Billions on Trident, redundant weaponry, putting Scotland in danger. £Billions wasted on HS2 and Hickley Point. £13Billion a year decommissioning nuclear, ever increasing. Scotland in surplus in fuel and energy, and nearer the source, pays more. £Billions lost to Brexit.
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“Go on Jackie! Be a friend.”
Go on Jakey, don’t be a fiend.
Fify.
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Slightly OT as I’d meant to touch on this on the ‘waiting times’ article, apologies for the length….
Aside the glaring issue of defunding the NHS for an exceedingly long time, the myopic ‘politics’ of London has a lot more to answer for.
Start with government enforced student loans, then look to government enforced low NHS junior doctor pay, then look to government tinkering with senior doctor pensions, then government enforced Brexit, then wonder why the MP for Ilford North insists the answer is privatisation.
There is a shortage of doctors in the UK in all sorts of specialisms, and let’s not kid ourselves there is some magic doctor tree to paraphrase Thatcher, or that even the private sector in the UK can offer the salaries or lifestyle to attract those back who left the UK in desperation in the first place.
I forget now where I read the article, but it centred on a medical graduate who followed others who left “can’t afford it” Britain to become a fully qualified doctor elsewhere, and paying off their student loan within 2 years. The inevitable question was asked, would you go back to work in the NHS or private sector, to which the answer was “christenings, weddings or funerals only”.
That in a nutshell is why Wes Streeting is ignoring his own A&E, he has been complicit in not only destroying the NHS, but hiding the fact the “magic doctor tree” doesn’t exist even for the private sector.
All of our problems stem from London politics – The once dominant breweries of London moved out before a UK politician could suggest organising a pissup….. It is overdue time Scotland followed their example….
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From what I have read recently there are doctors in England especially GPs who cannot get jobs. Physician Associates – non-medical qualification – seem to be favoured when vacancies arise rather than full0y qualified doctors.
Shortages of specialist doctors is down to the UK Gov and their refusal to create more training places across a whole range of specialist areas.
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