Monday 18 June 2007

NHS inefficiencies

In principle, the NHS is a great: free health care for everyone. But a recent article I read in the Telegraph "Surgeon praised by Blair gives up on UK" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/17/nhs117.xml
highlights the inefficiencies. What makes things incredulous is that the surgeon actually met the prime minister. The ideas he proposed were ignored completely so he has decided to work abroad despite a 44% pay cut. The methods employed by this remarkable surgeon reduced waiting times from a year to three weeks. He can do five hip or knee replacements a day whereas his colleagues can only do one or two.

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