Re: Easy Isn't It
Wow, who knew that making things better could be so easy.
If you think about that from a workflow perspective, it is actually much easier than the NHS make out.
From time to time queues build up, that's life. But if you can't clear them, then by definition they build towards infinite length, until they are limited by patients dying before treatment. We have a bit of that, but not much, so on average the NHS is treating people at the rate that new cases arise. With a bit of better resource planning, getting the queues down isn't that hard, its just some basic maths.
I'm sure the doomsters will object violently to this post, whining endlessly about how the Torys are to blame for everything but that's the reality. Either you have ever increasing queues, or you at some point have to match the treatment volumes to the new case origination rate. And if you can do the latter, then the simple trick is to do that sooner, before you build up this huge backlog. Everyday production companies address and resolve this problem, the NHS could do a whole lot better - as one example, if they are importing international locums, make them into a mobile task force, instead of doing it at the individual trust level.