[Editorial] UK National Health Service —beyond repair?

In a recent editorial, we highlighted the disconnect between the UK National Health Service (NHS) and its founding philosophy, and the existential crisis facing British health care. Recent weeks have seen the highest numbers of patients on record not being treated within prescribed waiting times, patients being queued on trolleys in hospital corridors, and urgent surgeries cancelled because of insufficient intensive-care beds. Moreover, dangerous, financially-motivated, clinical decisions are being proposed, patients are donating chemotherapy equipment to under-resourced hospitals, and more protest marches by junior doctors and the public alike are happening than ever before.
Source: The Lancet Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research