Is There a Redundancy in the NHS?

Any system in order to be safe needs a certain amount of redundancy built into it, right? Because I wouldn't want to walk across a bridge that had been designed so efficiently, it could support precisely my weight and no more. So if you're so efficient, what happens when you have an emergency - the system stops working. That's one of the reasons for the current crisis in the NHS, there is no spare capacity. In the absence of social care, we're finding vulnerable elders, for example, being dumped into the NHS with basic illnesses or even when they're not elderly just need a little bit of support. AndI wouldn't be surprised to find out if McKinsey has had