Friday, April 14, 2006

Has the media got it wrong over the NHS?

In the hunt for the NHS misspent millions the media blames the management or the politicians. Yet, these professional cynics are getting things wrong again in attributing blame. In fact even their solutions of giving power back to the nurses and doctors would make things worse for the NHS. It is simply ridiculous to suggest that the medical staff have the management skills needed to run an organisation which has an £87bn budget, has an economy equivalent to Austria, is the 33rst biggest economy in the world, and which employs over 1.3m people (as large as China’s armed forces).

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