The Observer view on the existential NHS crisis that demands a PM with a plan | Observer editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : It needs sufficient funding to ensure it has the capacity to adapt to a rapidly ageing society, to develop more integrated provision with social care at the local level, and to shift its focus to public health and preventative care alongside acute care, for example, through reducing levels of obesity and improving early diagnosis of diseases such as cancer and heart conditions.
52% : It predicted that the NHS and social care service will require an extra 475,000 and 490,000 employees by the early 2030s, but highlighted that the government has no credible plan to meet that need.
48% : Social care funding per person aged over 65 fell by an astonishing 31% between 2010 and 2018.
47% : The remaining candidates to succeed Johnson as prime minister, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, have failed miserably to acknowledge the scale of the challenge facing the NHS and social care system.
45% : In social care, the situation is no better.

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