Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Editorials

Simon Stevens speaks out over NHS funding

BMJ 2017; 359 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5251 (Published 14 November 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;359:j5251

Rapid Response:

Simon Stevens is now responsible

We now know the government's response to Simon Stevens' warning:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/10/theresa-may-tells-nhs-bo...

Not much hope, is there? And who, except for an apparatchik, would want to take on the role when Stevens is sacked for telling the truth?

Competing interests: No competing interests

20 November 2017
Neville W Goodman
Retired anaesthetist
Bristol, UK