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10 ideas for 21st century healthcare
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When the NHS was established in 1948, many of the biggest health problems in the UK were curable illnesses like infectious diseases and fractures. Over half a century later, the picture is very different. People live longer and this brings new challenges. Amazing medical advances mean that patients survive cancer, strokes and heart attacks but many are left living with long-term conditions that require ongoing care. Our lifestyles have also changed. Obesity, smoking and drinking are contributing to the development of long-term conditions such as diabetes that require life-long treatment and for which there is no cure. And we now recognise that emotional ill health is just as important as physical ill health and treat it as such.
It is clear that the health demands of the 21st century require an entirely different approach to healthcare. We need to be thinking less about defending 20th century systems and refocusing on the construction of new and radically different 21st century services.
Sarah Wilson and Katharine Langford - Personal Name
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Healthcare Management
English
1948
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