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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by rich_sasha on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:24AM (#32564569)
NHS has been underfunded for years. These issues are, in a way, not new. But it just kept getting worse and worse, COVID added burnout and a huge backlog of treatments and missed diagnoses.

It probably doesn't help that a lot of the medical staff were from the EU and just before COVID were PTFO.

I'm still waiting for those hospitals to be built by all the money saved by Brexit.

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by missedthecue on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:39PM (#32571918)
How do you know the problem is in fact underfunding? The UK seems to spend as much on healthcare as many other first world countries, but with worse results.
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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by rich_sasha on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:51AM (#32577154)
Well, let me rephrase. NHS has for a long time been unable to spend money it considered necessary for a sufficient level of ongoing and preventative care.

At the tail end it certainly seems plausible, stories about lack of funds for hiring doctors, and visible queues at A&E have long been a staple of healthcare. What caused that tail-end lack of funds, I'm not sure.

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:07PM (#32572775)
UK seems to be at the lower end of the wealthy/expensive first world countries:

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

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