Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg

Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by benj111 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @10:37AM (#32540612)

Waiting lists are going down. They just cleared the backlog of people waiting 3 years for treatment

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by MagnumOpus on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:39PM (#32543123)

Sure, and the excess deaths above help a lot in doing that.

Still, while waiting for patients to die is an cheap way to shorten backlogs, it does leave not instill confidence…

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by benj111 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:19PM (#32543482)

Except people don't tend to die from needing a hip replacement or other quality of life surgeries. The urgent things tend to get done first.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by origin_path on Monday August 22, 2022 @03:47AM (#32548505)

They die of old age instead? Not really better. The point of the NHS is to treat people, if you have to wait three years for treatment that's the same thing as collapse, it's not really different from the user's perspective.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by benj111 on Monday August 22, 2022 @06:58AM (#32549769)

Are you suggesting the 3 year backlog has been cleared in 6 months just from people dying of old age?

I agree a 3 year wait is unacceptable, but 2 years of that was covid. Covid has largely passed so they are now getting through the backlog.

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