It’s a familiar cry – the NHS needs staff at the front line and fewer bureaucrats and administrators. Or as it was put to me the other day, with a little re-writing for political correctness – “we need fewer chiefs and more ‘native Americans’”. I’d
Even though the strategic direction of the NHS in England under Simon Stevens seems to me to have been pretty sensible, I am not convinced by the latest instalment: ‘sustainability and transformation plans’ (STPs). Something feels not quite right, (not, I should stress, that I
Is care rationed in the NHS? Should it be? This is an issue I’ve come up against a few times recently and it’s left me a bit confused. On the one hand, if there’s any hint that care may be withheld because of the cost,