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Originally Posted by Maggy J
If we want the NHS to be open 24/7 then we will have to employ not just junior doctors but everyone else with specialist skills.Doctors need lab technicians,radiographers,nurses and all the other myriad professions that keep the NHS working Monday to Friday..plus the missing extra doctors and nurses/midwives the NHS currently has shortages of.
However that costs and trying to provide on a shoestring won't cut it..
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I agree with your sentiments but I disagree that we are running the nhs on a shoestring. I think that we are chucking a vast amount of cash at it already
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Originally Posted by nomadking
The policy of a 7 day NHS came along LONG BEFORE that report. It was cited simply because it was recent.
Still higher death rates based on that report.
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And that's before you consider that many doctors and nurses are deeply, deeply ***** when it come so diagnosis and care.