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How to fix the NHS, with Phil Whitaker

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Are Other Countries Facing Similar Challenges?

The UK has an aging population and more people who require more complex care for longer. To what extent do you think that the current crisis is a specifically British problem or are other countries with similar demographics facing similar challenges? And if they're not, can we learn the thing from any of them? Yeah, it's not a British problem. It's replicated across the Western world. I think we are an outlier in what we might call addiction to hospitals. Probably the most telling in South Shore, comparison, I could cite it is Norway. They've got every person in Norway is registered with a name GP. So this is the kind of system that we used to have in the health service

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