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Episode 3 - Future

The NHS faces a monumental backlog of patients waiting treatment. So how exactly do we tackle the backlog? The Economist’s health policy editor, Natasha Loder, looks for answers.

As we emerge from one of the worst winters in NHS history and with record numbers of people waiting for treatment, what does the future hold for our health service? To help clear the backlog do we need to radically reform the institution? Could technology be the cure-all for the NHS's ills? Or is it just a funding issue?

In this final episode of The Backlog, the Economist’s Health Policy Editor, Natasha Loder, goes in search of some big ideas to help get us out of this current crisis and reshape the NHS so it's fit for 21st century health provision.

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