TY - JOUR T1 - The NHS is broken: We need to change how our healthcare system works and join the 21st century JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 155 LP - 155 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2022-212546 VL - 40 IS - 2 AU - Stephen H Boyce Y1 - 2023/02/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/40/2/155.abstract N2 - The NHS is broken. The NHS workforce know this. When will politicians accept it? COVID-19 placed significant stress on the NHS. However, COVID-19 did not break the NHS. It was the final straw that broke an already creaking service. Before COVID-19, the NHS operated at greater than full capacity with no resilience in the system. This was evident every winter. To continue treating COVID-19, we created hospital capacity by cancelling elective work, … ER -