For those of us who don’t know what you’re talking about, but are intrigued, can you supply a link?

PeeDee – I admire you for doing it but PLEASE use your own towels to do the cleaning, not someonelse’s!:mad:

No one has yet explained why the UK employs more staff than any other national health service yet languishes way below France, Italy and Spain, which have comparable populations, on the WHO rankings. Clearly the money spent is ill-spent and the statistics suggest that it is wasted on people rather than capital resources.

Sad, ineed. He and Bill Cosby were a great pairing.

With respect you cannot separate the Trusts. They are part of the NHS structure and have to be seen as such. In the US, of course, the structures are completely different.

I cannot comment on your last paragraph, but perhaps you can answer GA’s earlier question. What proportion of the total employment in US healthcare is non-medical? This relates tio an earlier series of exchanges you might have missed.

GA – I notice that you had second thoughts about your unequivocal, initial response to my post. I wish I could agree that I had exagerrated the “dead-wood” effect. But I don’t think I have. I fear that it is fundemental to solving the massive NHS problem and the fact that all the main political parties have declared it “off-limits”, out of fear of the electorate, fills me with despair.

I reckon that if you polled people the question ” Would you accept a large reduction in the money spent on the NHS, if there was no reduction in the quality of the service and a likely improvement in that service over 5 years?” – you wouild get a significantly strong “yes” response. he naysayers woild be those who couldn’t accept the premise that you can often get more by spending less.

How many drivers, of any type of vehicle, make regular and frequent stops, even for 5 or 10 minutes, to “freshen-up”? My guess would be about half as many as should – including, on occasion, this driver.:(

Swerve – in my earlier post and your reply we are talking about two different things. I am talking about numbers and you are talking about expenditure.