The Great NHS debate

NHS trust: why Whitehall’s increasingly divided view on health and care matters

With Whitehall paymasters showing less faith in the organisations that hold the budgets for health and social care in England, Mark Dayan describes five ways…

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This is an interesting, but ultimately depressing read. However, it does not change my view that a shedload of money is being wasted in the NHS, and that a big review - maybe a Royal Commission - is required to sort it out.

Otherwise, we are just throwing good money after bad.

Throwing more and more money at the NHS year in year out, is akin to respraying an old car without treating the rust first all that does is hide the problems for short time until the rust come through again.