Healthcare services stuck in “doom loop” from short term policy making, think tank warns

UK public services including general practice, hospitals, and adult social care are stuck in a “doom loop” as a result of quick fix policy decisions and years of underinvestment, a think tank has warned.In its annual report on the state of public services, the Institute for Government said that health and care services were performing worse than they were before the pandemic and were in a much worse state than in 2010 when the Conservatives took office.1 Unless serious action is taken to improve productivity, services will remain in a “perpetual state of crisis,” it warned.“Public services that have for years been creaking are now crumbling,” the report said. “In the NHS, the elective waiting list reaches a new record high every time figures are published, industrial action by doctors is now into its eighth month, and patients find it increasingly difficult to get an appointment with an ever shrinking…
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