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Old 10-12-2021, 21:12   #449
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Mad Max View Post
Cheers mate, so a quick check tells me our population has gone up by approx 12 million, but have we increased the number of hospitals to cope with this increase? If not, you can understand why the NHS is in such a mess.
It was just a rough guess, looking into it further shows the NHS was getting to be a shambles 10 years earlier (mid 70's) and they were trying 'new ideas' to stop the rot . . some worked, some didn't.

From an old article in the Mail (Sept 2017) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...e-decades.html

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The number of beds has fallen from 299,000 in 1987/88 to 142,000 in 2016/17, while the number of patients has soared.
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