There is a cure

摘要

THE boring predictability of winter crises in the UK's National Health Service has complex roots, but a paradoxically simple solution: shift the focus of our health system "upstream". This term has its origins in the lament of an accident and emergency doctor: "I feel like I spend every day rescuing people drowning in a river. I save as many as I can, but they keep coming. It's exhausting. Eventually you just want to get out, walk upstream and stop the bastard who keeps pushing them in."