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The pundits no doubt will confidently blame reorganisation, CCGs, privatisation, ageing populations, political ideology, untested dogma, and untrialled restructuring. Indeed, some on radio phone-ins have blamed incompetent managers holding out out a begging-bowl for bail-outs.
It would be really helpful at this point if economists such as the National Audit Office, Charlesworth, or Appleby, were to furnish an updated data analysis comparing the differential deficits, the areas most pressured, and the demographics, country by country ( England, Scotland, Wales, N Ireland).
Or must we suffer yet another unevidenced ideological ding-dong ?
Competing interests:
Taxpayer and potential patient
The sad irony of it all is that people have forgotten to economise, ration or prepare a budget within their means. All that wealth has achieved is a deterioration in people's health. Obesity, ischaemic heart disease, and diabetes are some of the results of greed, as ignorance feeds off people's stupidity. The NHS is no different. It is bloated, inefficient, spoilt, and suffering the same fate as many of its patients.
It is time to ration care, cut excessive expenditure to the bone, amputate bureaucracy and do more with less. Patients will be better for it. Lean, disciplined and healthier.
trusts record “staggering” deficit - some worse than others ?
The pundits no doubt will confidently blame reorganisation, CCGs, privatisation, ageing populations, political ideology, untested dogma, and untrialled restructuring. Indeed, some on radio phone-ins have blamed incompetent managers holding out out a begging-bowl for bail-outs.
It would be really helpful at this point if economists such as the National Audit Office, Charlesworth, or Appleby, were to furnish an updated data analysis comparing the differential deficits, the areas most pressured, and the demographics, country by country ( England, Scotland, Wales, N Ireland).
Or must we suffer yet another unevidenced ideological ding-dong ?
Competing interests: Taxpayer and potential patient