I think all of us, whether a public sector professional or a member of the public will have clocked the current crisis in our health system and would have heard people putting it down to the so called ‘winter pressures’.
There is no doubt that the winter and the Christmas holiday period has placed extra pressures on the system but the question being asked is why have the pressures this year been so much higher than previous years?
Interesting it is that people are finding it difficult to answer this important question and the comparatively mild weather most of us experienced over the Christmas period has done nothing to provide the answer.
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