A couple of topical items, courtesy of EHealth Insider Issue 483
1. Quote of the week
"David Cameron is making history - he is the first Prime Minister to set
out five pledges to protect the NHS from his own policies."
Ed Miliband
2. Diary
Columnist Simon Jenkins was fulminating elegantly about the state of
NHS reform in the Guardian this week. As a general rule, Jenkins can
be relied upon to damn government and argue in favour of letting
people spend their own money on the things they want to spend it on.
So it was no great surprise to find him contending that the coalition
should have quietly let more competition into the NHS.
Jenkins is particularly anti government IT, and may even have coined
the phrase 'NHS supercomputer' as an example of Whitehall profligacy.
He found space for a little dig at NPfIT again this week, complaining
that under Blair "some £10bn was allocated to a useless NHS
computer." Just £10bn, rather than the £11.4bn the DH is still owning up
to. And just a computer, not a supercomputer. Cutbacks.
Yours optimistically
David
Dr David Bullock
Director, UK NEQAS
Birmingham Quality
P O Box 3909
Birmingham B15 2UE
FAX 0121 414 1179 [+44 121 414 1179]
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