19 : NHS Crisis ?
Winter is here. And so the annual plethora of otiose ideological partisan cant and vacuous platitudes aka the " NHS is in Crisis " discourse is once again under way. The answer to " will the NHS ever be out of a state of crisis?" appears after many decades to be; no. The only differences to be discerned amongst all the world's national health systems is the degree to which they are all in one way or another perceived to be " performing " or functioning at a noticeably lower standard than any other arbitrarily chosen health system or systems to which they are compared at any point in time. For example ,the reputable body on such matters , The King's Fund posted online on June 8 2017, ( herewith an extract gleaned ) from " How Does the NHS Compare Internationally ". " Although the UK has been at the forefront of the development of measures of health care quality (like the national patient survey programme) and the use of...