The Economist's data team looks to be causing thousands more deaths. The most visible signs of the problems in the NHS are long waits at accidents and emergency departments. Among them are pressures on GPs, local doctors with surgeries who practice in the community. Dr Camilla Hawthorne is a salary GP but also recently become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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