DrThis story from today’s Daily Telegraph demonstrates clearly why the NHS cannot and must not be allowed to carry on in its current guise.

Primary Care Trusts (PCT) are apparently asking NHS hospitals to delay seeing patients for many weeks to ration healthcare, enable the fiddling of the balance sheet and lower expectations of the service.

I think that is it fair to say that most people now have pretty low expectations of the NHS, especially when we see stories of NHS failure such as this and rationing such as this!