There are far, far too many managers and directors in the NHS. People who should be making decisions but just don't get on with it. People who hold meetings, to discuss how meetings will go, and other meetings to discuss those meetings. It's carnage, and money (their salaries) should be spent on more medical staff and equipment.
With regard to finding more medical staff, I think we've currently peaked until junior doctors and nurses, as well as those who are now at uni, have finished training. The alternative we are left with is to open the door to allow more foreign doctors, nurses and anaesthetists into the UK to help us.