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?

@miss_s_b You are probably weird. I love weird people.

I work in IT. If our servers are running at 100% capacity, that is a major problem. They should run at more like 60%, so that there is resource for other tasks and problems and something to ramp up into.

The NHS is currently running at 100%, and it is suffering all of the same problems. It needs to run significantly less that this.

@SteveClough yep this was exactly my thinking