Is it a good idea to open new hospitals and train more healthcare workers?

They’re closing hospitals down as we speak due to funding issues.

Train the workers first, before you open the hospitals. Any other way makes no sense.

And as @Dutchess_III wrote, they are closing hospitals for lack of trained personnel and lack of funding.

So your idea isn’t going to work.

Who’s paying, private or government?

@Chestnut in Canada we have a health act that restricts health care to mostly government. So It is the government who pays.

Our Prime Minister promised to build 40 new hospitals but it turned out twelve of these were new hospital wings, twenty-three were rebuilding existing hospital structures and only five were whole new hospitals. There are six million people on hospital waiting lists in the UK and this number won’t even start coming down for another two years. We need more hospitals and trained staff but it isn’t happening on the required scale.

At the moment in our Province of Alberta Canada we have a soon to be voted out Premier
( Jason Kenny) who during the worst pandemic crises had cut BACK on Hospital medical and non medical staff making it that much longer and harder to flatten the curve .

So now our Province will be looking for new staff to fill those positions that he cut?

In major cities at least they should be staffed withe the best in there positons for the most favorable outcome in regards to our health.

Thus more staff will be required soon but badly needed now.

I suspect that he cut the staff all many for finiancial reasons, in that long term Nurses etc were most likely at the top of there pay grade and this “old top management techique” will come back to bite him in the Elections soon.

It’s a good idea to increase healthcare capacity regardless of situation, because it means lower waiting times, the staff get to work fewer hours and offer better care, and there aren’t ICU or bed shortages.

Unfortunately the UK government isn’t, and is instead out-sourcing to the private sector, has cut funding, not raised wages with inflation, and cut bursaries for trainee nurses.

It takes time to build those hospitals, more time than it may take to train the people. And people are quitting in droves!