On Thu, 21 May 1998 00:39:06 -0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>The problem is not whether staff and computer money is ring-fenced from
>prescribing money.
>It is whether there is enough money.
>If there is not, or if it is absorbed in wasteful things that should
>not be done, then arguments arise about ringfencing particular bits of
>it, but the debate should be over the total input money, and what it is
>spent on not over whether bits are locked up in opaque budgets for
>imaginative book-keeping.
Exactly!
But we are forever overwhelmed by one 'reform' or another, no wonder
we never have the time, will or detremination to talk about the real
threats and issues. Instead we just continue to squabble amongst
ourselves. Classic 'divide and rule', I am sure you'll recognise ;-)
Ahmad
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