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Originally Posted by Bonnyboy
There are instances of poor roads everywhere, the amount of cash that the NHS gets should be, by far, enough to buy whichever medication is required, source whichever treatment is needed, supply the staff and run hospitals in a safe manner, car parks included. The NHS is blighted with mismanagement by people with no medical background. Other organisations have similar problems but seem to be able to weed this kind of thing out of the system. A for instance of what I mean might be why should a directorate manager ( with no medical background )working in Blackpool, just as an e.g. making decisions upon availability of beds, whilst at home here in Accy or deciding which wards should close or how many nurses have to be axed to meet targets. 
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While I agree with some of your observations, it is clear to me that you have no concept of the vast amounts of money which are required to treat patients with life shortening illnesses(cancer).....if you look at the cost of drugs to treat things like Breast Cancer (herceptin) and Ovarian cancer(Paclitaxel/Taxol being just one of those drugs) and the cost of infertility treatments, and those were the things that were just in my field of expertise.....then you would know that whatever the government gives the NHS will always be eaten up by the needs of the people being treated.
Of course, like all organisations there will be what some people perceive as 'mismanagement'......perceptions which may or may not be correct.
In my opinion(and it is only my opinion)the greatest mismanagement is to run wards with low levels of staff, who are not allowed to do the job they want to do, purely because there isn't enough staff.
Do the powers that be listen to their staff? Well, what do you think?
I am glad to say that I left the NHS after 29 wonderful years.......you could see what was coming........I miss the patients, but I do not miss the petty bureaucracy, the chasing of government set targets, and the government meddling. The last two items are where a lot of money (your money) is wasted.....because the government change their mind about what they want.
I'm sorry for such a rambling (perhaps, off thread) post.