The UK National Health Service which has been creaking for years is deemed in a “critical condition” by a new report. A&E is in an “awful state”; the UK has higher cancer mortality rates than other countries and the service has been starved of capital investment, meaning “crumbling buildings”, mental health patients in “Victoria-era cells infested with vermin” and “parts of the NHS operating in decrepit portacabins.”
Rising levels of illness are risking economic prosperity, with 2.8 million people unable to work because of poor health. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged to spend a greater proportion of the NHS budget on GPs, social care and “community services” than on hospitals, which he said would help alleviate pressure.
The NHS founded 5 July 1948 has an empathetic if not realistic Cancer Sun square Neptune which is being rattled up by the approaching Libra Solar eclipse and next March’s Aries Solar eclipse both impacting on the Neptune – which is not altogether reassuring since Neptune tends to avoid direct action even when challenged to change. There is also a Mutable T square of Jupiter opposition Moon, Venus, Uranus, Mercury in Gemini square Mars in Virgo hinting at an essentially scattergun and not well organized approach. It is being undermined from various angles by Neptune – with tr Neptune square Venus, Uranus, Mercury into and throughout 2025; and exactly now by Solar Arc Neptune square the Mars for a sinking feeling of failure, continuing on for the next five years as SA Neptune opposes the Venus, Uranus, Mercury. Plus a downbeat tr Saturn hitting the Mutable T square early and late in 2025 into 2026.
2025 looks a particularly jolting year with the Solar Arc Sun square Uranus.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, 21 January 1983, is tough, which he’ll need to be with an Aquarius Sun square Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in final degree Libra; with Mars trine Saturn Pluto. But it’ll be an uphill struggle with 2026 looking grim for him as tr Pluto starts to square his Saturn and tr Uranus is conjunct his Mars.
[There is an oddity in that many Labour/Government charts and Labour relationship charts point to 2026 as a calamitous time – which for a new administration does seem strange.]
Although the removal of the winter fuel allowance for better-off pensioners has caused an almighty fuss, I wonder whether the change in mindset might in future allow for a shift over a European system of health care where there is a mix of state medicine plus some funded by private insurance. Those who cannot afford it get it all paid for while others chip in a contribution.
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