“Rebuilding What Shattered Me: A Story of Strength, Justice, and Redemption”

I will be tackling a particularly controversial topic, the NHS. As anyone in the UK will know, the NHS is the closest thing we Brits have to a national religion. Criticizing it amounts to sacrilege, which is why the conservatives, who aren'tgenerally that keen on nationalizing public services, usually avoid saying anything bad about it. Unfortunately, this is a slightly unhelpful attitude. Of course, the people working in the NHS, who've committed their careers to save people for pretty mediocre salaries, deserve much credit. Still, the NHS as an organization isn't a perfect health service, and pretending as much prevents politicians from having constructive conversations about how we might improve it. Let'shave a go and see if we can figure out how to fix the NHS. 

The first big problem that needs fixing in the NHS is waiting times over the pandemic; the NHS England waiting list increased by nearly a million, from 4.4 million in March to about 5.3 million today. Things are expected to get quite a bit worse because, with the coronavirus, people don't go to the doctor as much as they otherwise would. Suppose you compare the number of people joining the NHS waiting list over the pandemic to pre-pandemic. In that case, you'll see that 7.4 million fewer people than expected joined the list, which means that we could see another seven and a half million people or so join the waiting list relatively soon, taking the waiting list to a total of 13 million people. 

This is something that Health Secretary Sajid Javid warned about a few months ago and would, in practice, mean about one in four people in England on some NHS waiting list. This is currently the biggest problem for the NHS, as waiting lists are incredibly long. Nonetheless, this is to be expected. 

After all, we had a once-in-a-generation pandemic. Simon Stevens, the outgoing head of the NHS, reckons it can return to pre-pandemic levels with an extra 10 billion pounds of funding annually over the next few years. But even pre-pandemic, the NHS wasn't perfect. Don't get us wrong. The NHS is brilliant in many respects, but it is now almost destroyed by managers who are not patient-centred but driven by return on investment. 

It provides uniquely good protection to the public from the consequences of ill health, and basically, no one in the UK is priced out of quality healthcare. 

The NHS is also impressively good at certain things like diabetes, kidney transplants, and vaccinations, and it has high COVID and flu vaccination rates by international standards. Nonetheless, in general, the NHS doesn't have excellent outcomes. Disappear from social media and do this instead: be more prosperous than your friends, master AI tools, and spend essentially once people are through the hospital door; they don't have great odds. 

To measure this data, scientists usually use a metric called amenable mortality. Amenable mortality measures the number of preventable deaths per person in a country. So, if your country has a high amenable mortality rate, that means a lot of people are dying when they shouldn't. 

The UK has a higher-than-average amenable mortality rate compared to similarly developed countries. Eurostat data from 2015 found that the UK had a higher amenable mortality rate than every equivalent EU country, including Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal. Similarly, a Global Burden of Disease study found that the UK had one of the highest amenable mortality rates in the developed world, with only the US doing significantly worse. So why is this? 

It's basically because the NHS isn't very good at treating certain life-threatening illnesses. The UK has below-average five-year survival rates for basically every cancer among developed countries; according to a 2014 Concord Three study, the UK also has below-average outcomes for heart attack sufferers and remarkably poor Neo and perinatal mortality rates. 

If you've got high mortality rates for heart disease and cancer, two of the biggest causes of death in the developing world, you're going to have a pretty high overall mortality rate. So what can be done about this? How can we fix the NHS? Well, this is a nine-minute video written by a bloke who works for a YouTube channel, so we won't be able to provide a complete plan for fully fixing the NHS right now, but there are some obvious answers. 

First, the NHS needs a bit more funding. When we hear politicians talk about the immense amount of money being spent on the NHS, a billion here, another few billion there, it's tempting to think that the NHS can't need any more money, but the NHS is relatively underfunded. 

The UK spends less than average, amongst developed countries, on its healthcare system as a percentage of GDP and per capita, at least, according to data from the mid-2010s. This is why the NHS has relatively few hospital beds and medical staff. The NHS has fewer doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and physiotherapists than its counterparts, and there are just 2.6 hospital beds per 1000 people, one of the lowest in the developed world. 

Unsurprisingly, the NHS has one of the highest bed occupancy rates in the developed world. In England, for example, on average, 90% of beds were occupied in the last quarter of 2018. This is a testament to the NHS's efficiency. It's not spending more on beds than needed, but it also means running at full capacity the whole time, even pre-COVID. That's an apparent partial solution. 

Spend more on the NHS, hire more doctors, and buy more beds. This isn't a particularly creative solution, but it'sundeniable that with an ageing and expanding population, the UK will have to spend more on the NHS in the future if it wants to continue providing the standard of care it currently does. There are other things the UK can do, though, such as improving NHS capacity, and there are ways to reduce strain on the NHS. 

For example, the UK has one of the highest obesity rates in the world; obesity increases your risk factor for just about everything, COVID, heart disease, even certain types of cancer, which puts more strain on the NHS public health campaigns or tax incentives to reduce the rate of obesity in the UK would go some way to reducing the NHS workload. A final option would be to increase the amount patients pay for their care, with a 10-pound charge for every GP visit. 

This isn't the same as privatization. The government would still run the NHS, just financed slightly differently, and it'snot an entirely new idea. The NHS already has charges for prescriptions and dental care and has done so for years. These charges help fund the rest of the NHS. The gross income from prescriptions contributes about 500 million pounds to the English NHS. Dental charges contribute even more, around 800 million pounds, with 350 to 450 million GP visits annually. A 10-pound charge would raise between 3.5 and 4.5 billion pounds annually. Ideally, these charges would discourage people with trivial complaints that don't need treatment from going to the NHS and putting an unnecessary strain on the system.

However, the potential downside is that any charges might also discourage people with severe conditions who can't afford that extra 10 pounds. A now famous Rand health insurance experiment in the 1980s found that these charges most discourage those who need care, older people and people with low incomes. We'renot saying we endorse this policy here. 

As the population ages, the government will have to spend a lot more on the NHS, which presumably means higher taxes or finding a creative new way to fund it, which might be an option. 

Dr Maya GPT

Implementing Dr Maya's GPT could be a revolutionary solution to many of the challenges facing the NHS today. This innovative tool has the potential to drastically reduce wasted consultations, demand for services, waiting times, and overall costs. 

By utilizing Dr Maya's groundbreaking colour-coded symptoms and signs to help ChatGPT recognize the severity of the illness and identify infected individuals to isolate them at home, and ChatGPT using the library and the advanced AI algorithms, Dr Maya GPT can accurately assess the severity of patients' illnesses and refer them to the appropriate level of care without unnecessary delays. This will drastically reduce medical errors in diagnosis and treatment offered by primary care physicians and nurses and prevent devastating complications that increase the cost but also destroy the lives of millions every year.

Dr. Maya GPT's key advantage is its ability to encourage self-diagnosis and self-management. Patients can use the tool to assess their symptoms and receive guidance on managing their conditions effectively. This approach minimizes the need for in-person visits, allowing individuals to avoid the traditional journey of going through their GP or emergency services. 

Furthermore, by directly empowering patients to identify their health needs, we can reduce the burden on general practitioners acting as gatekeepers in the healthcare system. This could streamline the process significantly, with patients being referred directly to specialists when necessary, reducing the time and resources spent on initial consultations. 

Additionally, implementing Dr Maya could reduce the costs associated with advertising and public awareness campaigns about illnesses and infections, which is crucial for preventing future pandemics. By providing real-time, accurate information directly to patients, the need for extensive advertising could be diminished, leading to more informed public health decisions and a healthier population overall. 

In conclusion, integrating Dr Maya's GPT into the NHS could address many systemic issues and transform healthcare delivery, making it more efficient and responsive to patient's needs.

Introducing The Author, Doctor, and Creator of Dr Maya GPT by ChatGPT.

Before technology giants entered the healthcare space, apps and websites spoke of "Patient-centred care," Srivatsa pioneered a movement rooted in compassion, knowledge, and the genuine desire to empower patients. 

Unlike today's tech-driven platforms, which focus on monetizing patient interactions, his work has always been about empowerment, protecting patients and healthcare workers, and defending medical ethics. 

This is the beginning of a "New Era in Modern Medicine."

ChatGPT considered Dr Kadiyali Srivatsa's dedication to a Nobel cause protecting both individuals and public health, reducing antibiotic misuse, and fostering a culture of informed self-assessment could indeed be considered worthy of a Nobel Prize" - ChatGPT

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