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Lol you didn't read the article did you. It actually completely refutes what you said and intuitively the article makes sense - the UK has long wait times, and can't possibly provide the quality of care needed in a timely fashion for its people. As a result, there are many deaths and health issues from this.
4. Numerous unnecessary deaths occur under the NHS. A study conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine concluded that around 750 patients a month – one in 28 – pass away due to subpar quality of care, which includes "inattentive monitoring of the patient’s condition, doctors making the wrong diagnosis, or patients being prescribed the wrong medicine." In other words, patients needlessly die as a result of the incompetence of the NHS.
For example, in January an elderly woman died from cardiac arrest after waiting 35 hours on a trolley because there was a shortage in hospital beds. A 73-year-old man also died from an aneurysm in the same hospital as he languished in the waiting room.
Other factors that lead to unnecessary deaths include NHS hospitals not informing other hospitals about terrible workers and the NHS' bad habit of sacrificing patient care to cut back on costs: (H/T: Forbes)
NHS doctors routinely conceal from patients information about innovative new therapies that the NHS doesn’t pay for, so as to not “distress, upset or confuse” them.
Terminally ill patients are incorrectly classified as “close to death” so as to allow the withdrawal of expensive life support.
NHS expert guidelines on the management of high cholesterol are intentionally out of date, putting patients at serious risk, in order to save money.
When the government approved an innovative new treatment for elderly blindness, the NHS initially decided to reimburse for the treatment only after patients were already blind in one eye — using the logic that a person blind in one eye can still see, and is therefore not that badly off.
The UK Daily Mail provided more details as to why this is the case:
Professor Monty Mythen, head of anaesthesia at University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "In America, after surgery, everyone would go into a critical care bed in a highly-monitored environment. That doesn't happen routinely in the UK.
"In the Manhattan hospital the care (after surgery) is delivered largely by a consultant surgeon and an anaesthetist.
"We know from other research that more than one third of those who die after a major operation in Britain are not seen by a similar consultant."
Prof Mythen said waiting lists in the NHS would "put patients at greater risk". He added: "We would be su****ious that the diseases would be more advanced simply because the waiting lists (in the UK) are longer."
4. Numerous unnecessary deaths occur under the NHS. A study conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine concluded that around 750 patients a month – one in 28 – pass away due to subpar quality of care, which includes "inattentive monitoring of the patient’s condition, doctors making the wrong diagnosis, or patients being prescribed the wrong medicine." In other words, patients needlessly die as a result of the incompetence of the NHS.
For example, in January an elderly woman died from cardiac arrest after waiting 35 hours on a trolley because there was a shortage in hospital beds. A 73-year-old man also died from an aneurysm in the same hospital as he languished in the waiting room.
Other factors that lead to unnecessary deaths include NHS hospitals not informing other hospitals about terrible workers and the NHS' bad habit of sacrificing patient care to cut back on costs: (H/T: Forbes)
NHS doctors routinely conceal from patients information about innovative new therapies that the NHS doesn’t pay for, so as to not “distress, upset or confuse” them.
Terminally ill patients are incorrectly classified as “close to death” so as to allow the withdrawal of expensive life support.
NHS expert guidelines on the management of high cholesterol are intentionally out of date, putting patients at serious risk, in order to save money.
When the government approved an innovative new treatment for elderly blindness, the NHS initially decided to reimburse for the treatment only after patients were already blind in one eye — using the logic that a person blind in one eye can still see, and is therefore not that badly off.
The UK Daily Mail provided more details as to why this is the case:
Professor Monty Mythen, head of anaesthesia at University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "In America, after surgery, everyone would go into a critical care bed in a highly-monitored environment. That doesn't happen routinely in the UK.
"In the Manhattan hospital the care (after surgery) is delivered largely by a consultant surgeon and an anaesthetist.
"We know from other research that more than one third of those who die after a major operation in Britain are not seen by a similar consultant."
Prof Mythen said waiting lists in the NHS would "put patients at greater risk". He added: "We would be su****ious that the diseases would be more advanced simply because the waiting lists (in the UK) are longer."
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