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In the UK, an annual ritual is unfolding. Several hospitals hit and policymakers toyed with the idea of banning A&E patients. There were proposals to use spare rooms in private homes for recuperating patients – dubbed – to free up hospital beds ahead of what might become the “”. The government promised an extra £350 million, quickly .
The boring predictability of winter crises in the National Health Service has complex roots, but a paradoxically simple solution: we need to shift the…
