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Here’s a powerful must-read article from the Express for anybody interested in the UK’s public healthcare system. It argues that the NHS is not fit for the 21st century and has failed to adapt to population growth in the UK, citing the new chief inspector of hospitals.

Source: NHS CRISIS: Radical action is needed, hospital chief warns | UK | News | Express.co.uk

The language is pure dynamite. For twenty years or more the money has been squandered on the wrong things. Now the cancer is terminal unless radical action is taken.

But surely the Conservative Government are too weak to now drive radical transformation? So what should be done as a matter of priority?

Thoughts?

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The answer to Dr Alf’ question is ‘yes’ and Mrs May’s Government must do it by first merging Adult Social Care and the NHS within a new structure, modelled on German and Singaporean lines.

Then malingers in GP surgeries need to be given their marching orders and the same needs to happen to pensioners abusing the NHS A & E departments when there is nothing wrong with them.

If this is not done, there will be no NHS and local authorities responsible for Adult Social Care will implode financially, and no amount of financial engineering, delivered by younger versions of Dr Alf will be enough to save them.

John Gelmini