DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Strike out waste in our bloated NHS  trends now

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Strike out waste in our bloated NHS  trends now
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Strike out waste in our bloated NHS  trends now

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Strike out waste in our bloated NHS  trends now

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Strike out waste in our bloated NHS

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There is never a good time to fall ill. But as the country braces itself for the biggest ever wave of NHS strikes, this week is a particularly poor one.

Nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers are walking out in pursuit of astronomical and unrealistic pay claims.

Thousands of operations will be cancelled, leaving people in pain for longer, while lives will be put at risk if sick and injured patients can't get to hospital.

Those who strike should ask themselves who pays their wages. It is not the Government, but hard-pressed taxpayers.

It's not as if the NHS is hard done by. Record sums in real terms have been pumped in by the Tories.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers are walking out in pursuit of astronomical and unrealistic pay claims

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers are walking out in pursuit of astronomical and unrealistic pay claims

But as we reveal, health bosses spent a jaw-dropping £144million last year on private ambulances and taxis for patients.

This comes on top of the countless millions the behemoth forks out on 'woke' non-jobs – including diversity and inclusion managers – and compensation.

Perhaps there would be more money for pay rises if the NHS wasn't so wasteful.

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How illuminating that after the transgender prisoner row blew a hole in the logic of Nicola Sturgeon's shambolic gender reforms, support for her and Scottish independence has plummeted.

The public, unlike the SNP and Labour, are concerned that self-ID puts women and girls at risk from predatory males.

So this is the perfect moment for the

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