New government, same narrow vision

BMJ 1998;316:643-643 ( 28 February )

Editorials

New government, same narrow vision

It's time to move beyond the numbers on waiting lists

News p 650

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Reduced waiting lists for NHS hospital treatment was one of the five main promises Tony Blair made to the British electoratebefore his election. Last week we learnt that since he came topower the numbers waiting have increased by 100 000. The timehas surely come for the government to acknowledge the inevitabilityof rationing health care and to shift the debate on the NHS tosomething more important than numbers on waiting lists. Even onwaiting lists, there is scope to copy New Zealand and do a betterjob of managing them.

Britain experienced a disorientating period of optimism after last May's election. Many sensible people, including observersof the health service, deluded themselves into thinking that allwould be different. Old problems would be solved and a new Britain $---$ anda new health service $---$ would emerge. In fact most problems, includingthose of the health service, are deep . . . [Full text of this article]

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New government, same narrow vision: H McFarlane, Rajan Madhok, M Gary Nicholls, A Mark Richards, Peter W Moller, John M Elliott, E J Begg, and Alan Padwell
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