This is a classic example of the press surreptitiously highlighting a problem with NHS employees because technology used by the NHS is still working properly, c

This is a classic example of the press surreptitiously highlighting a problem with NHS employees because technology used by the NHS is still working properly, constantly being updated for health care providers around the world to buy if they so wish. There might be a problem with the NHS estate, ie buildings, but take that up with the builders and building managers. It was the Royal Devon and General Hospital (Wonford) that was the first major structure in the UK that had concrete cancer. http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_organisations/rde.php#:~:text=Unfortunately%20in%201985%2C%20the%20400,layers%2C%20which%20then%20fall%20off http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_organisations/rde.php#:~.... No mention of how keyhole surgery, an updated method of surgery has reduced the need for beds, hernia operations in the 70's used to be a week long stay in hospital but today is a half day out patient procedure; better diagnostic testing and drug development has reduced the need for surgery; there are many improvements in medicine and healthcare and its being seen globally. All this article highlights is that medicine has changed, the UK boomer population hump is now of that age where they need the NHS more than most and for decades have not held repeated govt's to account, perhaps indirectly highlighting that democracy doesn't really work. But the need for health care has changed, gone are the days for needing massive hospitals with huge numbers of staff and beds, the trend for care in the community has been around since the 80's. Thatcher pioneered care in the community to prop up your house prices, so are we witnessing a generation of people or group of people who want to stay in hospital for as long as possible, like a previously undiagnosed form of Munchausen disease?