NHS, Karl Lagerfeld

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Sickness and Health, Thomas George Webster (1800-1886) 
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Lord Prior of Brampton, the chairman of NHS England, has said that targets, competition and reliance on inspectors had all led to a disjointed system and demoralised staff.

A series of NHS reforms that have broken up the health service into autonomous hospitals, “makes driving an integrated strategy across the NHS almost impossible.”

…The main aim of a ten year plan was to overcome organisational divides that had “riven the NHS over the last 25 years.”

(The Times, 2019)

Well who was responsible for the setting up of targets, competition and reliance on inspectors in both the Health and Education sectors in the first place? Politicians. Don’t keep interfering. Remove both organisations from their influence. At the very least shouldn’t there be a cross party committee on Health and Education that has a ten-year plan?

                                              Letters referring to the above article 

Sir, …Yes, the NHS must change. But this time around let the people who work in the system design and lead it.

(Professor Carrie MacEwan – Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.)

*Sir, Lord Prior is to be congratulated on his remarks. History will not look kindly on the flaws in NHS strategy and policy over the past 20 years or so…

(Professor Sir Ian Kennedy,The Times, 18.2.2019)

Sweatpants

Hibiscus Flower, William Bruce Ellis Rankin (1881-1941)

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“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”

(Karl Lagerfeld who died in February. The i, 20.2.2019)