Flaws in the way the NHS is managed need to be addressed by the Government - The Yorkshire Post says

Even so, the extent of problems facing the service laid bare in today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee will come as shocking to everybody who relies upon the NHS.

A postcode lottery for ambulance response times and emergency treatment, patients stuck in hospital because they cannot be discharged safely, and a plan for improvements that could actually make matters worse add up to a picture of a health system that is critically ill.

The committee’s stark finding is that the NHS is not functioning properly. Despite having more money and staff than at any time in its history, the service is failing to deliver and has serious structural problems, not the least of which is a lack of joined-up provision between health and social care.

These are issues which have been apparent for many years, but disturbingly the committee raises the prospect that the Government’s long-term plan for the NHS – vaunted by the Prime Minister as the cure for its ills – may instead add to the difficulties because the way it is funded could increase financial pressures in the future.

What is plain from the report is that the crisis facing the NHS is not simply one of resources. Pumping yet more money in will not solve the problems. There are flaws in the way it is managed, with regional variations in performance pointing to failures of central planning and control.

That is a matter for the Government to address. The committee poses a series of questions for NHS England.

The answers must come from Rishi Sunak and his ministers, because the buck stops with them.