I am learning about the Health Service. The organisation is chaotic. The people who work in it are brilliant.
The people who have seen me at Bermondsey Spa, my GP, at Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals and at University College London have all been very good at the medical stuff and very good with a patient.
The organisation behind them is less good.
It is not a normal business. Unlimited demand for a free service which divides political opinion is not the ideal model for an efficient, cost-effective business.
But it must be possible to have one businesslike bunch dealing with the allocation of beds, the booking and managing of appointments, the peaks and troughs, leaving the brilliant medical bunch to do what they are good at.
And they must have the means to raise the money it takes to meet this unlimited demand. If the government won't pay the bill, the Health Service needs to be able to raise it some other way.
I would invest in NHS bonds, or NHS crowdfunding.
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