Lothianlad

I think that the present Coalition Government will relent to a certain extent on these seemingly radical plans to localise the running of the NHS and to give your ordinary local GP's greater autonomy in the organistion and control of their budgets and to promote privatisation on a large scale.....the NHS is regarded very much as a "precious possession", a sort of "sacred cow", here in the UK and any Government seeking to meddle with it in any big way will do so very much at its peril.

Sure enough the NHS has its faults but what organisation as massive as the UK NHS hasn't? We only seem to hear of the negatives while at the same time completely ignore all the positives and benefits which far, far, far outweigh the downsides.

The main problem within the NHS is the huge waste of resources that has occurred in its administration - the last (Labour) Government poured millions into the Health Service but so much of the money can not really be accounted for.....something which has often occurred in past Labour Governments.......waste.

One of the necessary aims of the new Government is to cut down on waste of all kinds, including unnecessary administrative personnel performing unnecessary "jobs" - the remedy will, of course, be painful, but so will be the massive task the new Government is faced with generally to put right the colossal amount of waste and malpractices of the late Labour Government resulting in such a colossal national debt, verging on bankruptcy, that is now costing us in the UK gazillions of £s in interest alone! Labour's legacy.

Watch this space......