A friend, who lives in a small town in the UK, has just visited his palatial new health centre. The health centre unfortunately has been built on the edge of the town and is not easy to reach. My friend asked for an appointment to see his doctor and was told he would have to wait three weeks. A three week wait to see a doctor!
"England has one of the lowest number of physicians per head of population of all the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - the ratio of doctors to patients in England in 1994 was only 59 per cent of the OECD average (1.6/1000 as opposed to 2.7/1000)." Science Blog -- Ratio of doctors to patients is good predictor of ...
"More people in this country are dying than is necessary - this proves it. England is an international disgrace. In the developed world, only North Korea and Turkey, I think, are worse." BBC News Health Doctor shortage 'is killing patients'
System Failure: Private Eye report into NHS IT
"England has one of the lowest number of physicians per head of population of all the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - the ratio of doctors to patients in England in 1994 was only 59 per cent of the OECD average (1.6/1000 as opposed to 2.7/1000)." Science Blog -- Ratio of doctors to patients is good predictor of ...
"More people in this country are dying than is necessary - this proves it. England is an international disgrace. In the developed world, only North Korea and Turkey, I think, are worse." BBC News Health Doctor shortage 'is killing patients'
System Failure: Private Eye report into NHS IT
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