[Margaret Pilkington]

Businesses are run to make their owners/shareholders a profit......and while I agree that the NHS should pay its way(as far as it can).....I don't think that it should be run as a business.
Patients are not tins of beans, and should not be subjected to 'market forces'.......the paring down is always(it seems) done at the end that looks after the patient....and currently this end is looking positively skeletal......down to the bone.