Healthcare in the UK can be a pain

Not everything is as rosy in the UK’s National Health Service as Sicko makes it. Patients in the UK are restricted to seeing doctors close to their homes. The resulting inconvenience costs a total of 3.5 million working days a year in productivity.

U.K. businesses lose four times as many hours of productivity to doctor visits as they do to strikes, said the Confederation of British Industry, the country’s main employer group.

It seems the government is planning to change this, however, giving patients more of a choice on which doctor they see by December.
London Doctors Are In, Just Not Available to Patients [Via Bloomberg.com]

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