A grim winter looms for UK hospitals, but there is a simple cure

By Luke Allen

There is an annual ritual in Great Britain. Several hospitals were at full capacity and policy makers toyed with the idea of ​​banning walk-in A&E patients. There have been proposals to use spare rooms in private homes for the recovery of patients – called Carebnb – to free up hospital beds before what may be “the worst winter in recent history.” The government promised an additional £ 350 million, which was quickly dismissed as not enough.

The boring predictability of winter crises in the National Health Service has complex roots, but a paradoxically simple solution: We have to …