The health and care system is in crisis: what should (and shouldn't) be done?

The health and care system is in crisis: what should (and shouldn't) be done? Covid-19 represented a historic challenge to our health and care services as it did to the country as a whole. As it has receded (but alas not disappeared), it is increasingly clear that the threat of Covid has been replaced by a more intractable crisis affecting almost all aspects of the NHS, social care along with all those working in, or depending upon, health and care. Any hopes of a quick recovery post-Covid are well and truly sunk. The King's Fund