One obvious hypothesis is that the hospitals actually did get more careless, but there seems to be too little here to rule out other factors such as less-than-honesty in prior reporting and perverse incentives such as to shuffle such cases out of the hospitals altogether. And that is always a risk in a system that is under pressure in illogical ways.
Those are good points. There’s also the possibility that there was a proportional increase in the number of patients.
[[”One obvious hypothesis is that the [British] hospitals actually did get more careless”]]
Another obvious hypothesis is that socialism, beginning in the Soviet Union and continuing at full speed in the Great Britain medical system, always creates scarcities and painful,early deaths.
We “free-market” Americans cannot brag too much however. Our own little gulag of socialism, the Veterans Administration, features a nightmare a day. And patients are already lining up for the utopia of the future, Obamacare.