Reply #44: Before everyone gets all wound up... [View All]

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

...it's useful to understand that the NHS is not exactly a top-down hierarchical organization. There are many individual trusts, each is granted great leeway over how they conduct their operations. This was a problem at one trust and from what I've seen so far it looks like a completely legitimate problem. It's hardly an indictment of the NHS as a whole. Though I think there is a legitimate criticism to be made of the NHS here, as they were not ensuring that this trust was meeting basic acceptable standards for care.

I'm sure this will be all over the right-wing blogosphere, but then when were they ever concerned with telling the truth about health care?