Mastodawn

And I find this bit troubling.

You know who's going to request them? The healthy middle classes, that's who.

Nice idea.

I just hope they have a plan for where they are going to find all the extra clinicians they're going to need for all those extra appointments.

The government pledged to cut the list of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year.

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Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say | Social care | The Guardian

Preventative care losing funding to care packages needed to get people out of hospital

Authorities say attempts to clear NHS backlogs sucking up scant funds at expense of preventive care

The Guardian