Category NHS

Long Waiting Lists

I am of the age that I can remember during my training, when the waiting lists time for a hip or knee replacement were up to 2 years. Tony Blair’s administration of 2000 introduced an eighteen-week target by which time a patient’s hip or knee replacement should be undertaken. The…

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NHS Restructuring

Many people may not have noticed but the structure of the NHS has changed. The intention of the re-organisation is to improve the co-ordination of work between General Practitioner’s, Community Services and the Hospitals. There is also a desire to prevent ill-health, the address factors affecting health and wellbeing such…

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