Starmer is talking totally irresponsible nonsense about the NHS https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/01/15/starmer-is-talking-total-irresponsible-nonsense-about-the-nhs/ I never expected the leader of the Labour Party to lead recklessly inaccurate attacks on NHS doctors. I thought that was what Tories did. But Starner's doing it now as he abandons any policies the country needs to appease Telegraph readers
@RichardJMurphy
Completely agree. Streeting seems determined to become Milburn 2.0 with a giant chip on his shoulder, and Starker enabling. Cameron famously said “the last thing the NHS needs is another top down organisation” which I took him to mean in the sense of a coup de grâce. Having worked through every set of reforms since fundholding, I’m not convinced they improved anything. And nhs bureaucracy (such as it is) is only there because successive governments have tried to exert finer and finer control. Administration supporting clinical services is threadbare. I’m a consultant of 20 years - guess who gives out passwords for our imaging system? Guess who fills in forms for high cost drugs? Guess who transfers booking information by hand from one computer system to another? Guess who types letters? Yep, me.
