Britain .. The rate of satisfaction with the health system drops to the lowest level

The level of British satisfaction has dropped from their overall health system to the lowest level, with long waiting regulations in hospitals and problems with obtaining an appointment with a doctor, according to a poll. Less than 24% of the British who participated in the survey expressed their satisfaction with the performance of the National Health Service in 2023, which is 5% less than the previous year, and the lowest level since the first poll in 1983 by the British social attitudes. The ‘national’ health system, which has the 75th year of its founding last year, enables the British to consult their doctors and acquire most of the care for free, and its decline in the middle of the discussion is expected to be a prediction to the legislative election expected this year. In a report, attached to this study, it is said that a contract of low financing and a chronic deficit in the workforce, followed by a global pandemic (Corona virus), left the National Health Services Authority in a state of continuous crisis. ” The level of British satisfaction has deteriorated within 15 years. In 2010, when the austerity period in Britain began the arrival of the Conservative Party, 70% expressed their satisfaction with the work of the health system, but their dissatisfaction increased to the corona pandemic, with their satisfaction by 29% within 3 years. The causes of the health system crisis in Britain, and this decline is due to long waiting periods to get an appointment with a doctor, or in hospitals, as well as the chronic deficit of employees. “The picture is dark, but these results are not surprising after a year of strikes, scandals and waiting for treatment,” says Dan Wilings, a Kings Research Center researcher. Despite the crises, the majority of the British still support the fundamentals of the National Health Services Authority, as it is almost free (91%) and finance it by tax (82%) and access to all (82%). The report says that the citizens “do not want to change the National Health Services Authority: they only want to work the current model properly.” About half of the interrogation, which counted 3,000 people, believes that the government does not spend enough money on the health system. “With the approaching legislative election, leaders should not ignore this decline in the pace of satisfaction with this famous public institution.” In response, the Ministry of Health said that “the waiting lists of the National Health Services Authority decreased for the fourth month in a row” despite the strikes and winter pressure on the system.