NHS Money Pit: It’s cash that counts

David Kerr, Professor of Cancer Medicine at Oxford, writes a thoughtful, if conventional, article in today’s Telegraph prescribing yet more incremental NHS reform.  Quite rightly, Kerr acknowledges that the days of pouring money into the NHS Money Pit cannot continue given that, living as we do on Fiscal Fantasy Island, the UK has run out of [...]

Can we believe the NHS’s management ratios?

An extremely well-informed source within a leading NHS trust has spilt the beans to cantankerous on how NHS trusts, and the NHS in general, have managed to hide the fact that the number of managers in the NHS has been growing out of control.
Here is how the statistics are manipulated: when compiling the number of [...]

Connecting for Health Strikes Back

Connecting for Health (Cfh) seeks to delay Newcastle’s timely and successful implementation of an alternative electronic medical record system to the failing £12.6 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

Waster of the Month – May 2009 – NHS IT Purchasing

Another NHS IT disaster?

GOSH! A reason to think twice about giving to Great Ormond Street Hospital

Should we reward the NHS Trust that failed Baby Peter with more of our cash?