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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, but this really isn't good enough. The money needs to be apportioned appropriately between direct services and administration. The administration needs to be efficient and not just bolster the bureaucracy. The trouble is, everyone gets caught up in sound bites and no-one is tacking the actual problem. The direct services (nurses, doctors, etc) all rely on an efficient administration which will provide them with systems, policies and equipment they need and so squeezing administration is not necessarily going to improve the lot of the medical staff.

The administration needs to be properly focussed on the needs of the staff providing direct services instead of getting hung up on the kind of nonsense they come up with such as unnecessary reorganisations that make no real difference to the provision of services.

It is really quite worrying that a huge layer of bureaucracy (the Primary Care Trusts) have been abolished with no discernable impact on the provision of services.

Seriously, the NHS does not need an ever increasing amount of money, it needs a generous dose of efficiency in the way it is managed.

Nail on head!