Britain’s National Health Service is in poor shape. It has 6.8m people on waiting lists, wards are full and public satisfaction has fallen. The situation is likely to worsen in 2023 WorldAhead
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskFears of a collapse are more than just a metaphor. A £9bn backlog of building repairs has been ignored in favour of paying for frontline services. At Queen Elizabeth hospital in Norfolk, 1,528 steel and timber supports had to be used to hold up the ceiling.
It is all a far cry from the optimism of 1948 when, as part of a government plan to rid the nation of “Want…Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness”, theopened its doors, providing health care for all, free at the point of use. Aneurin Bevan , the founding father of the service, observed that the rush for treatment “exceeded all expectations”. Eight million pairs of glasses were provided in the first year alone.
Part of the problem is bad circulation. Poor integration between hospitals and “social care” means patients do not flow through hospitals as they should. “Ambulances are full because the emergency departments are full,” says Helen Buckingham of the Nuffield Trust, a think-tank. “Emergency departments are full because the hospitals are full, and the hospitals are full because they struggle to discharge.” Yet social-care funding does not come through theAnother big problem is staffing.
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