{"id":5008,"date":"2009-10-05T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2009-10-05T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:21:31","slug":"tories-vow-to-cut-nhs-bureaucracy-by-a-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/05\/tories-vow-to-cut-nhs-bureaucracy-by-a-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories vow to cut NHS bureaucracy by a third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/oct\/05\/tories-nhs-bureaucracy-cut\">Tories vow to cut NHS bureaucracy by a third | \t\t\t\tPolitics | \t\t\t\tguardian.co.uk <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It's reported that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Addressing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/toryconference\">Conservative conference<\/a> in Manchester, Lansley will say: \"Labour have made expensive commitments on the NHS with no price tag. In contrast, we are determined to identify how we will save money before we spend it.<\/p>\n<p>\"To make the NHS successful we must devolve decision-making closer to patients. In doing so we'll save substantial sums of money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let's interpret that: doctors (who almost without exception have no management training at all) will manage massive budgets with no time allocated to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Now tell me how that is meant to save money or enhance efficiency when - with the greatest of respect to doctors - they have no clue how to manage big budgets?<\/p>\n<p>And how are doctors going to do this work and tjeir front line work when most work 11 hour days or more now?<\/p>\n<p>This is traightforward madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tories vow to cut NHS bureaucracy by a third | Politics | guardian.co.uk . It&#8217;s reported that: Addressing the Conservative conference in Manchester, Lansley will<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/05\/tories-vow-to-cut-nhs-bureaucracy-by-a-third\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}