Every organisation that represents people working in the NHS is voicing alarm and lack of confidence in its future.
The latest is the Federation of the Royal College of Physicians representing hospital doctors, which says there are not enough hospital doctors to deal with the 40% of the population, who make at least one visit each year to Accident and Emergency departments. This is a 5% increase on last year.
One of the reasons for the increase is the limited out of hours availability of GPs.
To compound the problem many hospital trusts are cutting back on staff and services to balance budgets. The NHS is being asked to make £20bn efficiency savings by 2014.
This means fewer jobs for hospital doctors are being advertised and there may not be enough jobs in the future for all the doctors now training.
Because medical costs keep rising, Shadow health secretary John Healey said that the coalition promise to protect funding in real terms is not being kept. The £3bn projected to be spent on reorganisation is a massive waste of money.
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