🦇 Jennie Rigg 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)Dec 22, 2022

If I hear one more person wittering on about "efficiency savings" in the #NHS I'm going to scream. The NHS has been pared to the bone in the name of efficiency savings and it does not work because you can't predict exactly when or how people are going to need the service.

I don't want the NHS to be efficient. I want it to have the capacity to deal with whatever gets thrown at it. I WANT there to be empty beds, because that means there's nobody waiting for a bed. I WANT Doctors to spend a certain amount of their day twiddling their thumbs, because that means people aren't stuck waiting in pain and desperation.

Am i weird?

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@miss_s_b No. It's also well-known in optimisation theory that you don't want 100% utilisation because the tiniest problem and it goes to hell. Even on very predictable systems, like car manufacture, you leave slack so that dropping something can be recovered from without hindering others. This goes double for the NHS. Spending 10 minutes as a manager means you hear this; it's poor politics that's driving this.
Dec 22, 2022 at 9:35amWeb