zandyaJan 4, 2023
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

@financialtimes poses the Q.: 'Why is the #NHS in its worst ever crisis?'

and provides a clear multifaceted answer:

Waves of winter #infections with a Govt. adopting a laissez-fair attitude to infection control;

Too few hospital beds (we have around 30% of beds per capita that they have in Germany);

Inadequate staff levels (& those in post are exhausted & demoralised) due a lack of good workforce planning;

Long-term underfunding (driven by the mindset of #austerity).

A #tory made crisis!

Jan 4, 2023 at 7:07amWeb
Show threadNorman KebellJan 4, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @financialtimes any mention of BREXIT?
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayJan 4, 2023
@Tormid @financialtimes not in that article, but they've been developing an overall highly sceptical set of articles/op-ed pieces on the costs & idiocy of #Brexit in the last months
Show threadEd LyonsJan 5, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 I guess it's better in the USA. I'm in a sweet spot with disability income and everything's covered and I'm in a good medical town. Lot's of good practices. The government doesn't run the hospitals, the government pays the bill. We can't solve the problem of universal coverage. But we're at best involved in cutting edge science that gets applied. Just what I've seen in psychiatry and the mental ward...
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayJan 5, 2023
@edlyons_89 Hmmm... I'm not so sure; no-one here goes bankrupt when they become gravely ill, we still have something like universal service & our medical outcomes (in most areas) are better than the USA... and then there's the question of infant mortality. I think you are right there are many for whom the health system works just fine for, but I wouldn't want to gamble my life on being inside that charmed circle, I'm afraid... thought, I'm interested that the mental health side works well!
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayJan 5, 2023

@edlyons_89 from a distance it seems like the most effective #healthcare is across the Veterans Administration, which is fine if you survive your military service intact (but again represents a gamble)....

But equally the comparisons are uneven, so here's a chart from Tin Knox's report for Civitas on comparative outcomes.... we're doing badly on many, but then again so is the USA... so I guess neither of us has much to be celebrating health care wise

The UK cancer issue is late diagnosis