2022-06-13
The NHS brooks no argument. It has been elevated by the politicians (who as a group set it up) and by the media (who should know better - it is their job as a "free press" to hold the powerful to account) to the status of sacred cow, a status so elevated that it is beyond rational scrutiny.
And that is the key point - it is so ridiculously dysfunctional and in-your-face institutionally dishonest that in our dystopian world nobody dares point up its obvious, and some would now suggest criminal, failings.
So it's no surprise to see the nobodies of this world stepping forward to do what needs to be done, nobodies such as UK Column, Daily Exposé, Daily Sceptic and many others too numerous to mention, but you know who you are.
Today we have Ann Bradshaw writing in the Daily Sceptic with a review of the
" ‘landmark’ review into health and social care leadership led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard"
This review by the 'great and the good' surely got down to brass tacks and left no stone unturned it its relentless drive to uncover and address all the institutional failings that beset our national treasure, and pin-pointed those measures that need to be taken in order to turn the behemoth around and transform the patient experience?
I note that all seven recommendations address aspects of management and leadership - none of them appear to identify real world outcomes for patients.
This could mean one (or more) of three things:
- either the front line is working perfectly and all the problems are down to the internal management failings
- or the direction set by government is perfect and all the problems are down to the internal management failings
- or pointlessly shuffling the management deckchairs around is still the best that can be managed, whilst the good ship NHS sinks, holed below the waterline by the total domination of the established big-pharma-cum-crony-government hegemony?
It's your judgement that matters.
