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Originally Posted by edwardmk
Brave comment.
The waste in the NHS is colossal and there is much scope to improve. Whistleblowers get suppressed, and there are no serious active incentives to reduce waste. The NHS pays out billions in damages due to botched operations and substandard care. Plenty of scope for improvement but in practice this is difficult to achieve.
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It's wandering off the original subject - but how true.
The NHS has become an enormous, bloated money pit with no direction or incentive to become nor operate 'efficient'. The front-end medical bit is in many ways world class but the administration/support/supply management is turgid, unwieldy and highly unaccountable ghosting along within a complex organisation. A huge employer (biggest single 'business' in the UK?) with leadership/vision it could become a lean provider but prefers/continues to blot-up cash and amble along whistling it's own tune.
All attempts at kick's in the backside get deflected with cries of privatisation/we're sacred so nowt/little changes - other than we need even more dosh(only a little of which will be justified)!!
When all the dust dies down over Covid-19 I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the initial crisis over PPE shortages was down to the NHS distribution regime/process rather than national strategic procurement/availability of stock - we shall see.