Dod101 wrote:And it would make not the slightest difference to the service/care that you and I receive at any state hospital. The NHS needs a wholesale reorganisation not even more money being thrown at it.
Dod
Of course! Private Eye just published some telling figures[1]: against static numbers of doctors and nurses (one up, the other down, but by a small fraction of a percent each), the number of managers is up by 5-6%.
And worse than that, anyone know what proportion of today's NHS budget goes to lawyers? And how much of those managers' time (not to mention the doctors' time) is spent covering their [expletive deleted] against lawyers?
Let me revise my previous proposal that Cabinet ministers and their families be required to use the NHS without the option of going private or abroad. We should extend that to special advisors, and top civil servants: Sir Humphrey, and his peers in the department of health. That could concentrate minds, perhaps quite miraculously.
[1] My recollection of which is open to correction.