Don't blame Ministers for PPE mess.

You do have to admire successive Government Ministers standing accepting criticism in relation to the lack of PPE on the front line when they could so easily point to the public servants tasked to buy all the gear and lambast them for their failure to acquire the right kit and get it to the right place at the right time.  

It’s not that the NHS procurement side of things haven’t had the time.  

I think the first instruction by a Minister to “do what is necessary” must be at least two months ago. 

We are now beginning to see the real failure of the centralised bureaucratic nature of the NHS compared, for example, to Germany’s largely non state owned and decentralised system.   

Our NHS procurement system can’t even supply basic kit to the people we clap every Thursday evening.