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
Efficiency is the minimum of resource used for a given level of service.

And it's always desirable.

But some systems are critical, and we like them to be efficient, but we *need* them to be robust.

(Resilience is the ability to recover from exceptional strain, also nice. What is *needed* is good performance across a range of demands, robustness)