We like to think that we own our NHS. It’s a public service. If we do own it, then the joke is on us. The NHS is now an unaccountable secretive mess and our interests are not being protected. The people tasked with looking after our interests are bullied or manipulated into amnesia. We are supposed to have the most open and transparent health service in the world, pause here for prolonged laughter. What we have is a howling mess with providers behaving like autonomous private companies and claiming commercial confidentiality over everything; meeting in private to keep things secret. […]
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