The idea of a national care service sounds fantastic.

The organisation works to bring rigorous analysis, prediction and planning to care service delivery, influencing decision-making in governments at home and around the world.

The hospital will not be shut down altogether, with a reduced medical staff retained to provide outpatient care, diagnostics, and a 24-hour urgent care service.

She worked with a home care service where physicians and nurses visit patients in their homes and helped optimize their routes, given a limited number of cars available for transportation.

It suggests that thousands of patients are sent needlessly to hospital by the urgent care service, which has been blamed for piling pressure on emergency units.