i'm sure you know already but if you didn't we have three other tltr youtube channels eu us and global learn more from all of these videos and channels by clicking the links below and subscribing so we're going to be tackling a particularly controversial topic the nhs as anyone who lives in the uk will know the nhs is the closest thing we brits have to a national religion criticizing it amounts to sacrilege which is why the conservatives who aren't generally that keen on nationalizing public services usually avoid saying anything bad about it unfortunately this is a slightly unhelpful attitude of course the people who work in the nhs who've committed their careers to saving people for pretty mediocre salaries deserve a lot of credit but the nhs as an organization isn't a perfect health service and pretending as much prevents politicians from having constructive conversations about how we might improve it so in this one we thought we'd have a go ourselves and see if we can figure out how to fix the nhs the first big problem that needs fixing in the nhs is waiting times over the pandemic the nhs england waiting list increased by nearly a million from NUMBER_TOKEN million in march to about NUMBER_TOKEN million today things are expected to get quite a bit worse because with coronavirus people didn't go to the doctor as much as they otherwise would have if you compare the number of people joining the nhs waiting list over the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic you'll see that NUMBER_TOKEN million fewer people than expected joined the list which means that we could see another seven and a half million people or so join the waiting list relatively soon taking the waiting list to a total of NUMBER_TOKEN million people this is something that health secretary sajid javid warned about a few months ago and would in practice mean about one in four people in england on some nhs waiting list this is currently the biggest problem for the nhs waiting lists are insanely long nonetheless this is sort of to be expected we had a once in a generation pandemic after all and simon stevens the outgoing head of the nhs reckons it can get back to pre-pandemic levels with an extra NUMBER_TOKEN billion pounds of funding annually over the next few years but even pre-pandemic the nhs wasn't perfect don't get us wrong the nhs is absolutely brilliant in many respects it provides uniquely good protection to the public from the consequences of ill health and basically no one in the uk is priced out of quality healthcare the nhs is also impressively good at certain things like diabetes kidney transplants and vaccinations with both high covered and flu vaccination rates by international standards nonetheless in general the nhs doesn't have very good outcomes essentially once people are through the hospital door they don't have great odds to measure this data scientists usually use a metric called amenable mortality amenable mortality is essentially a measure of the number of preventable deaths that occur per person in a country so if your country has a high amenable mortality rate that means a lot of people dying when they shouldn't be the uk has a higher than average amenable mortality rate compared to similarly developed countries eurostat data from NUMBER_TOKEN found that
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