pumpkinstrokemarrow

Moved to a second post today by some nonsense in the DT about how the Minister of Health & Wellbeing is going to sack any Health & Wellbeing civil servant who participates in any way with managing the number of operations we have to pay for out of public funds by being a bit economical with operations for the elderly. The sort of Tory double speak which makes me cross: it is (to me anyway) a self evident truth that if you put a ceiling on health spending, never mind cut health spending, you are going to have to manage the consumption of pills, potions, crutches, wheel chairs and operations. And one way to manage the consumption of operations is to think about the costs and benefits involved. So the Minister is trying to con us into thinking that our NHS is in safe hands by talking rubbish. It is, I suppose, possible that he has been misreported by the DT.

The Minister should read Duncan Pryde, who tells a story about a certain Mr. Eskimo, who explained to Mr. Pryde that it was a complete waste of money giving Mrs. Eskimo a new set of false teeth because she was well past it at 35 and likely to snuff it before too long. I do grant that this was a few years ago, in the 50's of the last century I think.