Polly Toynbee is honest to highlight the difficulties for managers trying to cope with the impossible combination of an internal market and underfunding in the NHS (This is the NHS,6 February) but she does not spell out the full horror of the effect of successive re-disorganisations.
There have been eight of these since the 1970s, implemented by politicians who have never bothered to evaluate whether any of them have had any favourable effect. As a doctor who worked in the NHS for 40 years from 1968, and my impression was that all did more harm than generous,and they cost billions of pounds.
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Source: theguardian.com