The UK govenment continues to pour untold billions into a failed NHS system – Robinsons recipe is to bring in a breed of super managers who can hold there own with the consultants and the Unions – lets manage our way out of it – at more expense of course!

Another interesting remedy suggested in Peter Day’s In Business programme on Radio 4, looked at the application of Toyota’s production principles to healthcare (Toyota hasn’t made a loss, or closed a factory, for 40 years). He sees the beauty of the Toyota system is that it concentrates rigorously on doing only what the customer wants, when they want it - rather than seeking efficiency by speeding up individual activities, it focuses on improving the flow through the entire system by keeping those activities to the absolute minimum.

e.g In A&E, , most of the workload is minor complaints or, increasingly, referrals from NHS Direct that aren’t really emergencies at all. Often even serious incidents are predictable, like drink-fuelled injuries on Saturday night. A system designed to handle predictable demand dispenses with the need for complicated scheduling and automatically increases capacity to cope with truly urgent cases.
However both models miss the essential point which is an understanding of the difference between sickness and health – in a society that encourages over consumption, under exercise, and is busy polluting its children with every toxin we can think up the National Sickness System will never be able to provide other than elastoplast to the problems – and in the process add to them (40% of hospital admissions are thought to be iatrogenic – ie caused by drugs provided by GPs or as a result of previous medical treatment). The customer in this case want to have his cake, coke, alcohol whatever and be given a magic pill to make it all better – the drug companies fuel this fantasy with constant stories about the super vaccine etc and the profits just keep getting bigger.
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