TY - JOUR T1 - Poor NHS JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 3 LP - 3 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X707237 VL - 70 IS - 690 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/690/3.abstract N2 - Our new government now has to focus urgently on the health and social care problems of the UK. It must work out how the crisis in primary and community care can be turned around, and how the UK’s rapidly deteriorating indicators for investment, which has fallen substantially in real terms, treatment facilities and health outcomes, many of which compare unfavourably with other less prosperous OECD countries, can be improved. The NHS is looking distinctly threadbare.Social care is a particular concern, sharing all the problems of recruitment, retention, morale and under-investment with the NHS. The rationale for reversing cuts to social care and investing more in these services is articulated in our first editorial by Lloyd … ER -