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Southcentral’s insight was that it was in the business of building trusting relationships with its community – not prescribing pills. Photograph: Chris Arend/Southcentral Foundation
An unexpected inspiration for the NHS might be Southcentral Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation delivering primary, community and mental health services for Alaska Native people in Southcentral Alaska. In the mid-1990s, Southcentral faced many of the challenges crippling NHS services today: four-week waits for routine primary care appointments and GPs coping with 40 or more appointments every day.
Has Alaska found holy grail of cutting costs and improving healthcare?