People keep saying our NHS needs more money. Buckets more. And maybe it does. But the problem is, the bigger the NHS juggernaut becomes, the more it appears to be incapable of managing itself and allowing itself to be truly innovative.
This was demonstrated by the story of David and his mum Rebecca Loo. After a fairly catastrophic encounter with the NHS she decided to do something. And she did. And she saved the NHS £22m as a result of her efforts.
My question is, why did it take a mum to come up with a better method than all the expensive brains in the NHS. And save the NHS £22m. Or more accurately, save the Taxpayer £22m. Or allow that £22m to be used for something else, like 1,014 new nurses.
The answer is of course, culture. Until that changes at both political level and at operational level, the NHS is going only one place. Downhill into a black hole of fiscal disaster.
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