Resistant to change...3 Oct 2017 09:02
Or capitalism doing its job? We have seen it recently in Monarch Airways
and others that fell by the wayside as old business ideas and models were replaced by cheaper better systems. The Internet being a huge driver for change just look at the High St. That illustrates why the free market works so well, you must innovate or at least keep up or die. Prevarication and dither you will be swamped by new tech and pushed aside by sharper competitors and more savvy managers. For instance Nokia where are they now? Elbowed aside by Apple that's where! Healthcare.... perhaps the last bastion of change will be forced to adopt new technologies that save money and improve patient outcomes however unpalatable that is to the bureaucracy that rules the NHS way of thinking. Pulling up the drawbridge is no longer acceptable. The speed of change is frightening where an App on a mobile let's you do almost anything at the press of a few buttons, order tickets, food, do banking, shopping, book holidays etc, etc...market forces at work or creative destruction as it's now called rules our way of thinking. How long before the Healthcare service & management join the real world entrenched as they are in billions of free money supplied by us? How long before tax payers insist on an accounting? We will need to see progress and the efficient use of money and equipment, the ripping out of layers of pen pushers allowing for an acceptable/better service to patients and customers. The Govt cannot go on ad finitum bank rolling the NHS from one crisis to another. The private sector manages along good business practice despite the odd casualty so.....it won't be long in the free at the point of care sector where patients are herded like cattle in Texas stockyards or left in corridors awaiting a nurse or a bed. Where there is no imperative to innovate or profit the service will inevitably collapse & die despite the best efforts of our Doctors and nursing staff.
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