Just got incensed again at the criminal NHS reforms and wrote to the BBC as follows:
The terrible thing about these reforms is that they are a complete waste of effort and focus at such a difficult time. The NHS is not broken but it is, in the current climate, costing too much. Indeed, as are many Government projects too. They can find money for HS2, Trident, or Afghanistan, or Iraq and even to bail out the banks. But they cannot or will not find either the will or money to help the NHS. What that tells us is that, for failing to give anyone a mandate to govern, we have been awarded a Cabinet of multi-millionaires who care nothing for their people but only for their mates in the multitude of private companies that will be the only winners in this fiasco. If they do not trust doctors to determine clinical matters why should they trust them to determine how to spend our money? It is hard not to see Andrew Lansley as some sort of viper at the bosom of the cabinet who is hellbent on getting his own way regardless of the views of wiser, more experienced counsel. Oh for an opposition worthy of the name!
The terrible thing about these reforms is that they are a complete waste of effort and focus at such a difficult time. The NHS is not broken but it is, in the current climate, costing too much. Indeed, as are many Government projects too. They can find money for HS2, Trident, or Afghanistan, or Iraq and even to bail out the banks. But they cannot or will not find either the will or money to help the NHS. What that tells us is that, for failing to give anyone a mandate to govern, we have been awarded a Cabinet of multi-millionaires who care nothing for their people but only for their mates in the multitude of private companies that will be the only winners in this fiasco. If they do not trust doctors to determine clinical matters why should they trust them to determine how to spend our money? It is hard not to see Andrew Lansley as some sort of viper at the bosom of the cabinet who is hellbent on getting his own way regardless of the views of wiser, more experienced counsel. Oh for an opposition worthy of the name!
