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Originally Posted by denphone
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It not just the NHS that has problems.
Paying more in taxes doesn't solve anything as the Swedes will tell you.
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“Not even children are spared in this crisis. At Stockholm's new Karolinska Hospital a third of the beds are empty and one in ten of the operations on children has been cancelled this year. ... The acute problem is the shortage of nurses. It is forcing hospitals to leave beds unused. ... Never before has so much money been allocated to the healthcare system, but it is being misused.
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17 of Sweden's 21 county councils and regions are struggling to recruit enough nurses for the summer period, with hospital staff numbers set to be strained.
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The fact that there are unfilled vacancies shows that money for the NHS ISN'T the problem. They must already have the money set aside in their budgets to fill those vacancies.