A common complaint about the NHS is that it’s not so much a health service as an illness service and that we’d be a healthier, happier, and richer society if we focused on prevention rather than leaping into action only when people fall ill. There are many analogies, such as not just fishing bodies out of the river but going upstream to find out who’s pushing people in, or building a fence at the top of the cliff rather than parking your ambulance at the bottom. Of course, the NHS has some effective prevention programmes, including immunisations and the screening programmes for bowel and cervical cancer. The NHS …

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海伦·索尔兹伯里：病假单和国家疾病服务

关于 NHS 的一个常见抱怨是，与其说它是一种医疗服务，不如说是一种疾病服务，如果我们专注于预防而不是只在人们生病时才采取行动，我们就会成为一个更健康、更快乐、更富裕的社会。有很多类比，比如不仅从河里捞出尸体，还要逆流而上找出是谁把人推进去的，或者在悬崖顶部筑起栅栏而不是将救护车停在底部。当然，NHS 有一些有效的预防计划，包括免疫接种以及肠癌和宫颈癌的筛查计划。英国国民医疗服务体系（NHS）…