Interesting that the Government has rejected the Mckinsey report on the NHS, I would like to know how much it cost? Management consultants are not cheap and have the Government rejected every part of the report so at least the taxpayer can take some comfort in the fact their money has not been completely wasted (not that this government seems to think about these things)?

Many people working for the NHS state that there is a lot of waste so why don’t we give them responsibility for sorting it out and they can create their own incentives when they have achieved it. I watched the series of programmes about Sir Gerry Robinson sorting out a hospital in Yorkshire in 2007 and it was clear that management had to get down on the shop floor and listen to how the staff would improve their hospital – they had plenty of ideas which seemed to work. I am one of the NHS’s biggest fans (you can see an earlier blog on why), we need a national health service which is free at the point of access, but the delivery has to be more efficient and that can only come from the people who work in it being allowed to make the service one that they are proud of without interference from a remote government.