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A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there's an easy cure

Winter crises grip the UK health system with worrying predictability and this year鈥檚 could be severe. We can move beyond this seasonal chaos, says Luke Allen

By Luke Allen

28 November 2017

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Pressures are rising

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In the UK, an annual ritual is unfolding. Several hospitals hit and policymakers toyed with the idea of banning A&E patients. There were proposals to use spare rooms in private homes for recuperating patients 鈥 dubbed – to free up hospital beds ahead of what might become the 鈥溾. The government promised an extra 拢350 million, quickly .

The boring predictability of winter crises in the National 午夜福利1000集合 Service has complex roots, but a paradoxically simple solution: we need to shift the…

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