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Hospitals cancel operations to cope with Government’s A&E crisis

Over 300 long-planned operations are cancelled each day as England’s NHS hospitals need more beds for A&E departments under record-breaking strain.

In the first two weeks of December, 3,113 elective operations were cancelled – many only hours before surgery or when the patient had already been admitted to the hospital. An increase of 16 per cent since the first fortnight of December last year and almost 50 per cent in two years.

Milton Friedman said that you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. This is why.

4 Comments

  1. djf says

    What does A&E stand for? It is a British acronym not used in the U.S. At least I haven’t heard it before.

    Posted December 28, 2014 at 3:20 am | Permalink
  2. Dom says

    Accidents and emergencies.

    Posted December 28, 2014 at 8:42 am | Permalink
  3. “Milton Friedman said that you can’t have open borders and a welfare state.”

    Friedman was a genius. But seriously, is this not obvious?

    Posted December 28, 2014 at 11:34 am | Permalink
  4. JK says

    Well Dom, we sure A&E doesn’t really mean as stated in the TV thingie

    Arts & Entertainment?

    (Kinda like Bread & Circuses?)

    Posted December 28, 2014 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

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