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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Target practice: Why NHS fixes haven’t worked
Description: The NHS reels from crisis to crisis, with a waiting list of seven million and chronic workforce shortages. Why is it so hard to change a service that clearly isn’t working? David Haslam, a former GP who has chaired NICE and the BMA and is the author of Side Effects, tells Ros Taylor that a focus on hospital treatment means that public health and end-of-life care are shamefully neglected.Â
“It’s almost as if we’ve designed the health service based on the interests of specialists.’
“If you stay with the same GP over many years yo...