Time to disrupt health care or is that impossible?

Strain in the NHSListening to the radio while eating my porridge, I hear stories of ambulances waiting 11 hours outside NHS hospitals to be able to transfer patients to accident and emergency departments. Whole shifts of the ambulance crews are spent waiting. A paramedic confirms that such stories are common and that response times of ambulances are lengthening almost everywhere. A representative of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says that the whole health system is under strain and that patients can’t get into hospital because of patients who don’t need to be there but can’t be discharged, usually elderly people who have nowhere to go. The country, he said, needs more hospital beds and improved social care.I think of Enoch Powell, once Secretary of State for Health, pointing out in his book on the NHS that the only way for those working in the health service to get more…
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