Caviar for One, Breadcrumbs for Another: The NHS Budget Shuffle

Wes Streeting’s £2.2bn redistribution plan sounds like social justice; but smells suspiciously like dressing up with a stethoscope. Yet it won’t fix the NHS, just spread the misery more fairly.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of discovering that unbeknownst to me, I apparently live in a well-off area. Not Monaco-level wealthy I might stress. I’ve never been offered foie gras with my flu jab or left a GP appointment clutching a bottle of Krug and a commemorative NHS Rolex. But it turns out I live somewhere posh enough that t…