BoldonLad
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How to explain healthcare whilst showing that you have no clue about healthcare.
Patients recover when they recover. Assigning an extra nurse isn't going to make them recover faster.
Waiting times are dependent on number of patients and number of trained professionals. You can run more clinics with more professionals that doesn't mean that any of them are working harder. Plus the number of patients seen can depend on the patients. Some will be quick and easy, some will be slow and want to talk about their life problems, and may have complex co-morbidities.
Doctors, Nurses and ACPs are not sat around on their hands because they can't be bothered to work now that their salary has increased by 5%. They are doing the same jobs and seeing the same number of patients.
Staff / patient levels are significant in patient recover (or lack of), that is one of the major points in the Lucy Letby debate in PE.
Key equipment may be a factor I would have thought, eg no matter how many staff trained to take X-rays you may have, no machine means no x-Rays, etc etc
The NHS (or any other healthcare outfit) consists of more than trained professionals. I would even gamble (only a £1, I don't have a gambling problem 😂) that non-medical staff outnumber trained professionals, in the NHS.