equally important in my book

pouring in more funding without structural change is an inefficient use of limited resources and won't deliver the long-term step-change that is needed

relying on structural change/efficiency savings alone isn't going to be enough either

also needs to be a recognition that any structural changes/improvement are in themselves going to eat up a s**t load of resources.

and at the end of the process we will still need to pay more from our pockets - there isn't any solution (be it NHS, private, or hybrid) that sees the healthcare system needing less resource.

All of this is why the NHS is a problem that no-one is going to be able to properly solve because the surgery needed to do it is so politically unpalatable

we will continue muddling along with what we have, making the odd change here, pumping the odd billion in there, and our children and grandchildren will be having the same discussion on whatever format of WOTB exists in the future.

Posted By: CWC, Jan 8, 13:20:43