#healthcare-efficiency

#healthcare-efficiency

The government have been urged to target young adults to volunteer for the NHS in a bid to tackle NHS waiting lists. A high-profile volunteer recruitment drive targeting young people could have a transformative impact on hospital efficiency, a charity has said, as it pushed the government to invest in the biggest hiring campaign since the pandemic. It comes as a YouGov poll found a third of 18 to 24-year-olds would consider giving up their time to volunteer in the NHS.

"The fax machine still exists, but only in healthcare," said Dr. Kaushal Kulkarni, a neuro-ophthalmologist. "Someone goes out and retrieves records from the hospital basement and proceeds to put 1,000 pages-basically fax records-on my desk. ' Here you go, doctor. Have fun. ' And now it's my job, in the middle of a busy clinic where patients are already waiting half an hour or more, to flip through 1,000 pages and try to figure out what's going on with the person in front of me who needs help."