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More evidence that a health service which has ben starved of investment,& defunded more generally, driving over-work for staff & crumbling infrastructure, will make expensive mistakes.
While this report is necessary & needs to drive improvements in the health service, Tories will have got what they wanted; a scare story to help people (who can afford it) decide to go private.... but of course private health care is often no safer (if for different reasons)
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/12/nhs-spends-147bn-a-year-treating-patients-in-england-hurt-by-care-mistakes-says-report
@ChrisMayLA6 a useless figure. It needs to be expressed as a percentage.
Without context, it is meaningless
So the NHS budget ai around £175bn, so that then looks like less than 1%, but nonetheless is money that in other circumstance (no staff burnout etc.) could be spent elsewhere.... but I take your point on proportion
@ChrisMayLA6 unfortunately it’s just part of the current narrative to make the NHS look bad