A Murderous Prime Minister?

Consider this question asked by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the chamber of the House of Commons yesterday accompanied by a hand gesture to his own cabinet ranked alongside (as reported in Hansard): I come back to this: do we want to get rid of the objective and, indeed, the guarantee that within two weeks someone suffering from cancer can be seen by a clinician? Do we really want to go backwards on that? Surely that must be a national objective which all people can support. Earlier the Leader of the Liberal Democrats had put these telling points: Does the Prime Minister believe that the culture of frenzied target setting that has been introduced into the NHS by his Government had any role to play whatsoever in the horrific events that occurred at Stafford general hospital? Nonsense reply Mr. Clegg: When doctors at that hospital have confirmed that they were instructed by their managers to abandon seriously ill patients and to treat people with minor ailments instead in order to meet the Prime Minister’s targets, it is not enough to talk of reviews, inquiries and to blame other people. Will he scrap the mad targets that make hospitals tick boxes rather than look after the desperately ill? A National Health Service absolutely requires some form of rationing. Targets rather than waiting lists result in the situation described by Mr Clegg in parliament yesterday. Voters have chosen to be lied to by their politicians on the matter of the NHS for decades - continuing on this route requires the greater British public to become or continue as deluded as their highly dangerous Prime Minister.