This is partly a UK view. The UK is in serious trouble. GDP is down 10% since Brexit. The combination of Brexit, COVID, and several incompetent government in a row has just been too much.
The whole of Europe is on the verge of collapse.
We take in a lot of foreign health care professionals but the borders were closed over covid. Not to mention the govt fired any "heros" who didn't get the vax.
Even before covid my region was staffed by 'locums'. I never saw the same doc twice and one was visiting from California. Now we have a brand new hospital but don't you dare try to use it. It's some kind of neoliberal private/public experiment. You'll be charged for sitting in the ER waiting to be seen, and after 4 hours waiting with a laceration you're too swollen for stitches.
If you have some non obvious sickness, you're only seeing an ED doc so they're just another level of triage so they're not really troubleshooting effectively they just want you out the door. My partner, in incredible amounts of pain (from as it turns out requiring a fucked ovary to be removed) was told to practice mindfulness, until she could see a nurse practitioner of ob/gyn in maybe 3 months.
The GP clinic is inside the hospital but went from serving 1,500 to 12,000 due to the restructures.
No, it's not? Unless you're comparing pre-pandemic to mid-pandemic, rather than the most recent post-pandemic estimates.
Current GDP estimate is within a percentage of what it was in January 2020, and about 6% higher than it was the month before the brexit vote. That's still far from ideal, but it's not 10% down.
Maybe you're thinking of GDP-PPP, but I haven't seen any post-pandemic figures on that, or maybe you're thinking that GDP _growth_ is 10% (not pp) lower than before brexit. That may be the case, but the last three years aren't a good basis for estimating GDP growth as they're very unstable for a whole host of reasons.
We are in a really bad economic situation and are underperforming most developed nations, but our GDP is not down 10%.