{"id":11247,"date":"2011-07-30T16:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11247"},"modified":"2011-07-30T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:28:04","slug":"why-not-spend-a-bit-more-on-the-nhs-then-gps-would-make-fewer-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/30\/why-not-spend-a-bit-more-on-the-nhs-then-gps-would-make-fewer-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not spend a bit more on the NHS &#8211; then GPs would make fewer mistakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attck on the NHS took a subtle new turn today - in the Guardian, of all places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2011\/jul\/29\/gps-missing-serious-illnesses\" target=\"_blank\">First the was the suggestion that GPs are making more mistakes<\/a>. They are. I suyspect that's true.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why is easy to explain.\u00a0Average\u00a0GP\u00a0consulting\u00a0rate per\u00a0patient\u00a0has risen in\u00a0the\u00a0UK from a little under 4 visits a year about a decade ago to about 5 now. I can search out a source - I read it recently; for now look on the web.<\/p>\n<p>GP productivity has increased massively to meet this demand - which is not acknowledged in critics\u00a0productivity\u00a0data fore the NHS but one way of doing that has been to reduce\u00a0patient\u00a0contact time - something\u00a0has\u00a0to\u00a0give.<\/p>\n<p>The result? More\u00a0mistakes. I don't pardon them. I'm\u00a0explaining\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>We can have the NHS we want in the UK. We just have to decide to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>We can do that too.<\/p>\n<p>It's called choice. But who is offering the choice of more spending? Because it is what is needed. Nothing else will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attck on the NHS took a subtle new turn today &#8211; in the Guardian, of all places. First the was the suggestion that GPs<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/30\/why-not-spend-a-bit-more-on-the-nhs-then-gps-would-make-fewer-mistakes\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}