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Quarterly monitoring report (QMR) 29:
how is the NHS performing?
Covid-19 has dramatically altered how NHS services and finances operate. Our 29th QMR looks at where the NHS expected to be at the end of 2019/20, where it actually finds itself in 2020/21, and what impact Covid-19 might have in the future.
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Within the last month I have had 3 appointments with specialists cancelled indefinitely - one didn't even notify me beforehand. I have just booked an appointment to see my GP and the earliest I can get is one week from now.
Provision of healthcare is in tatters within my hospital trust - Mid Yorkshire,
In Camden in inner London, a routine GP appointment has a waiting time of 2 weeks, if the surgery do not arbitrarily cancel it that is. Protestations that in 2 weeks you will be either better or dead have no effect.
There is effectively NO GP care at all, the NHS is a shambles run solely for the benefit of the staff, and has been for a long time.
Please put them to use showing us measures of demand, the prime movers in healthcare. I see handwringing about % of patients waiting over 4 hours - but I don't see the movement in demand which is driving them.
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