This crisis is not about missed appointments, its not about 'too many people, its a deliberately engineered problem.
7 years of cuts to social care mean that people are now not treated in their own homes, but those people do not just dissapear. Instead, they end up in the NHS taking up beds because there is nowhere to release them to where they can have adequate supervision. That means less beds in the NHS, because there are always more patients than there would normally be, a lot more. Then there is staffing, we have lost thousands of nurses and doctors, many of whom fecked off when after brexit when the abuse ramped up.
So before winter, we already had an NHS with not enough staff (The tories also cut nursing bursaries so now there are less trainees as many can't afford to do the course without them), and already too many patients. Then the winter comes and with it the predictable rush of patients.
That is what has happened, and its down to cameron and may. They chose policies that delivered this, its not an accident.