Antifroth

“Summary
Overall, we concluded that the NHS did not need a wholesale restructuring. We were also oncerned at the cost of the reforms, 2-3billion (Kieran Walshe, professor of health policy at Manchester Business School) in light of the Government wanting the NHS to save £20bn by 2015,
However, with much of the reorganisation underway despite the Health and Social Care Bill still being debated, our recommendations are to minimise the disruption to NHS patients and we hope that what emerges from the reforms helps deliver a more efficient, patient centred NHS that is sustainable long into the future.”
All Parliamentary Group on NHS report (PDF)

Mind you, I thought the tumour of management was destroying it. Alas, I don’t see a reduction occurring, planned, or likely.

Gruaniad article by Cardiology Registrar on the badness of the Health and Social Security Bill.

I’m old enough to remember the previous time we had a Department of Stealth and Total Obscurity. It was split because, I think, it was too big and unwieldy. Are we better at handling such masses? Is the total amount of trouble to handle in it no larger? I think not. So is it going to work this time? Optimism would be nice, but realism seems safer.