Time to divide the spoils?

You could be forgiven for thinking that it is open season on the NHS. Over the past few months, the media image has been of a service sick to its core, almost unrivalled in its incompetence and cruelty. From Mid Staffs to Morecambe Bay, from the “crisis” in emergency departments to the Liverpool care pathway, some egregious failings have certainly been on display.

The BMJ would have been remiss if it had not sought to document and interpret these. In their editorial (doi:10.1136/bmj.f4343), J Nicholl and S Mason seek to get beyond the “corridors of shame” headlines to the …