The two simple and very human reasons why all health systems, including the NHS, are bound to fail

Both hospital consultants and doctors in training in England have gone on strike and plan to continue to strike. They are striking for more money but also to save the NHS. They find that they don’t have the staff and resources to provide the care they have been trained to provide. Unfortunately, they are—like hamsters running on a wheel—stuck in a system that is unsustainable without reform that will feel very uncomfortable to everybody, which is, of course, why it doesn’t happen. Collapse may have to come first.One phrase prompted me to write this piece. In an article on what may happen to the Tory party if it is wiped out, as many expect, at next year’s election, the political pundit Katy Balls speculates that a Labour government may collapse “blown apart by an NHS timebomb left ticking by the Tories.”1 She may well be right.The two factors that make…
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