I read an article about the amount of work carried out by an NHS surgeon. Seems that a USA surgeon works twice as hard (twice the hours?) for four times the pay.
I asked a friend who is an orthopediac surgeon if this assessment was correct and he confirmed it. So I asked him why the NHS couldn't do this? It would be much more efficient if NHS facilities were operational 24/7. The simple reason was that they don't want to work that hard.
There are bound to be more complicated reasons as well, such as other staff needed to support the surgeons who also need to be paid and of course there are not enough of them nor beds. But it could be done, if some element of commercialism was injected into the NHS.
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