The NHS

I spent a few hours giving Mrs ER lifts to and from her place of work at the hospital in Oldham today.

"Yesterday,  junior health minister, Philip Dunne, had to answer an urgent question on the crisis in the NHS. There wasn’t a crisis, he insisted, because the government had a plan for dealing with the crisis that definitely wasn’t happening. All this talk of operations being cancelled was nonsense. No operations had been cancelled: they had just been deferred indefinitely in the hope that most of the people who needed them would either die or decide they would rather do without a new knee."

Thanks to John Crace in The Guardian for the above paragraph.