Here are some figures which may be of interests to you guys.
UK population: 60 million
NHS: £92 billion cost (£7.5 billion prescribing costs)
Primary care (GP): 261 million consultation
Secondary care: 13 million outpatients and 8.5 million admissions
As we can see, a lot of cost goes towards GP (jack of all trade doctor)/primary care
More alarming figure:
11% of hospital admissions are due to treatment error (why would your GP tell ya that when they eventually refer you to the right people, and in some cases too late)
average 4 person die through prescribing mistakes in UK per HOUR. That's death number of 35,040 per year in UK. (official figure from medical journal)
so perceived responsibility from public is one thing, actual incompetence leading to serious illness and death are mostly gone unquestioned.
100k, i would take that responsibility any time.
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