secondary care
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"Long delays worsen outcomes. It becomes more expensive to treat them. They end up in secondary care, which is more complex - and they fall further from work and become more reliant on benefits."
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025
We now have approximately 1,900 trainees in secondary care training programmes, and 900 in foundation training, as well as 160 GP training places every year.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
She said GPs were the "gatekeepers to the healthcare system and to secondary care" and without them "secondary care would collapse in a matter of days".
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023
Victoria Vallance, the CQC's director of secondary care, says inspectors often find the same problems in the maternity services they visit, for example, not managing risk when women are deteriorating.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2022
Additional savings would come from reduced follow-up appointments, fewer tests such as X-rays and scans and lower numbers of referrals on to secondary care in hospitals.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2015
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