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Is there even a definition of "doesn't work" that exists for you with the NHS? How inefficient and ineffective does it have to be before it's considered "not working"? Because, technically, every healthcare system on the planet has some effect.

Same for the army.

Aren't NHS medical workers in a constant state of protest over low wages and bad working conditions? I know the doctor/nurse brain drain from Canada and the UK to the US used to be really bad. I haven't seen what the statistics are recently.

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Honestly, a lot of it is related to pretty obvious attempts at dismantling the NHS by Westminster

Are they seeding it with incompetent middle management as a psy-op?

No, some of it is disrupting funding and organizational structure, meaning that NHS regions in England and Wales became structurally less capable due to loss of pooled resources, which also increased coordination burden.

And that's before you get into high level scam/idiocies related to Tory-beloved outsourced providers in IT et al.

Neither of those are beacons of either efficiency or performing to standard. In fact both are chronically mismanaged.

You'd actually struggle to pick worse examples.