Indeed and nothing rings more true then with the A&E department near me that had to close, the managers all blamed funding as the reason yet these people are paid £100K+ to appropriate that funding properly. Who is at fault there? Where does the money go if critical, emergency healthcare doesn't survive but a comittee of managers each on £100K+ does?
In my opinion much of this 'crisis' is being engineered on the part of the trusts and unions to damage the current government. There is no denying some crisis exists but no-one is blaming the people who run the NHS and these people are paid very lucratively indeed to do so.
A funding gap will always exist but I think it takes ruthless action to solve the actual problems related to care yet unrelated to money but this will never happen because it is far too big a political hot potato. The managers of these trusts should be looking into it but they don't they just ask for more money and blame the government, that is the culture of the problem.