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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Tudor Codreanu" Subject: Re: audit commission report I agree with you. I came in UK 2 years ago from Transylvania... Beautiful part of the world (well it was in 1980!) surely beats Moray? I was and still are amazed by the number of people attending A&E for such trivial things that would produce shame if happened in Romania. I don't know how generalised the phenomenon is, but regularly, Sunday mornings, there are at least 3-4 people (early) on their way to the church attending A&E for "just to be checked". You'll get over it! Seriously though, it's a scary thought; imagine when our waiting times are routinely under 75 minutes, demand will surely rise and rise inexorably pushing those times out of reach once again. Nye Bevan famously predicted that the new national health service would get cheaper; as more people were treated the burden of disease in the population would fall, reducing the fiscal burden! How mistaken he was...sadly. I wonder what would happen with the number of attendees if a charge of £10 would be leviated from each one coming to A&E. Ahh, now that's where it gets complicated... You know the guy who "invented" the health service (Aneurin Bevan again) resigned over the introduction of prescription charges. Try http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3943777,00.html for a brief summary of the modern anguish over health service funding, every bit as much a Bevan legacy as the health service itself! Adrian Fogarty (left of centre, but nowhere near Bevan!)