Market forces don't work in the NHS

When will they learn that dealing with people, and dealing with ill people is NOT like making widgets in a factory. Sir Digby Jones is going on again about how 'fair markets' principles are not being applied to rigorously enough to the NHS. I went to a lecture the other evening by a Professor from Yale University, who was scathing about the way in which these free market principles are destroying the NHS. He had no problem with managing the NHS to be efficient, but it as the 'fads and fancies' of the management jargon he took issue with. Perhaps we should leave well alone, and not just jump to the latest tune.

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