There is a cure

• Autores: Luke Allen
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3156, 2017, pág. 24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Allen talks about the winter crises in the UK's National Health Service. In one sense, the NHS is a victim of its own success: survival rates for childhood illness, heart attacks and cancers have risen. The result is a growing, greying cohort with multiple chronic conditions, whose needs put pressure on family doctors. Exacerbating this is a failure to keep funding and recruitment in step with demand. This has led to a crisis of GP retention and recruitment. As 90 per cent of all patient contact is in general practice, major hold-ups result. Waiting times top three weeks in 40 per cent of practices, so people head straight to A&E.