Money matters

[摘要] I have in front of me two newspaper articles. The headlines tell it all. Nick Cohen asked us to, ‘Just imagine what the NHS could do with the £20bn wasted on sick IT.’ (Observer 4 June, 2006). The Guardian's health correspondents (13 June, 2006) wrote, ‘Doctors fight to save drug guidance from government axe.’ Cohen's story is not just of the runaway costs of the government's determination to bring in a comprehensively computerised NHS, but of the large amounts of money paid to management consultants. These are the people to whom our elected representatives turn for advice, to avoid asking anyone who knows about the subject. They charge enormous fees, add on enormous expenses, and suggest systems that don't work. I have only Cohen's word for it, but ‘26-year-olds can charge an NHS trust £3000 a day for their services’.

[学科分类] 卫生学