Resumen de There is a cure
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.
