British public health at its wit’s end

“The biggest staffing crisis in NHS history” : the report drawn up by the members of the Health Committee of the House of Commons does not go overboard to describe a situation that is increasingly untenable, according to the london daily The Times July 25. The NHS (National Health Service), an institution that provides the vast majority of care to the British, is sorely understaffed.

Thus, according to the document, nearly 105,000 people would be missing to operate the service properly. And doctors, nurses or midwives in office are subject to recurrent professional burnout, which is combined with a toxic managerial culture and pervasive sexism.

The figures show that

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