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Thanks buddy
Maybe if they reduce the funding again it will fix it. >

We can say with high assurance by now that running healthcare systems to near full capacity in 'normal' times, without ability to absorb seasonal fluctuations, is a shit model.
And the structural inability to adjust that capacity over time to respond to a longer term public health challenges is also a shit model.
Maybe, finally, senior managers and deputy ministers of these systems will succeed with funding for prevention services to stem the tide? Since these other models are proven to be shit.
How much does an ER visit cost? Compared to how much a mask costs, or how much street-level harm reduction costs? >

After years of Tory mismanagement and intentional underfunding the crisis is nearly ripe enough to replace more of the NHS with more shitty private healthcare >

American here.
Fight them, tooth and nail.
If I fell on my sidewalk today, it would cost me $768 for the ambulance to show up and $24.50 per mile to the hospital. It is 8.2 miles to the nearest hospital that is in my network. If I was unconscious and they brought me to an out of network hospital, I'd be financially ruined. >

This is no longer true. The ACA made it so that Insurance companies can't charge you more for getting emergency room services at an out-of-network hospital. If you're in an ambulance, conscious or not, it's probably an emergency. >

The Brexit people were claiming that the UK will save millions of dollars by getting out of the EU. So where is the money? Shouldn't the government be using that saved money to improve the health services? >


An NHS spokesperson said: “Last month the NHS responded to over 100,000 of the most serious emergency ambulance callouts as well as answering over 1 million 999 calls – both the highest totals on record for December, as the ‘twindemic’ of flu and Covid-19 resulted in increased demand.  
Record numbers of patients suffered severe harm last month because they spent so long in the back of ambulances waiting to get into A&E, new NHS figures reveal.  
An estimated 57,000 people in England “experienced potential harm”, of whom 6,000 were exposed to “severe harm”, in December – both the largest numbers on record – because they had to wait at least an hour to be handed over to hospital staff, according to NHS ambulance service bosses. >

Meanwhile in BC Canada this is nothing new. >

Most, if not all, of Canada right now. Ontario is looking pretty dire. >

Sorry to hear, I only knew of BC. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 82%. (I'm a bot)


Record numbers of patients suffered severe harm last month because they spent so long in the back of ambulances waiting to get into A&E, new NHS figures reveal.
An estimated 57,000 people in England "Experienced potential harm", of whom 6,000 were exposed to "Severe harm", in December - both the largest numbers on record - because they had to wait at least an hour to be handed over to hospital staff, according to NHS ambulance service bosses.
In the latest evidence of how ambulance delays are costing lives, a coroner has opened inquests into how two women in Devon died earlier this month after the ambulance service took nine hours and seven hours respectively to reach them.


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