Soaking a Sponge with Champagne: The NHS and the Art of Getting Absolutely No Value for Money

The NHS turns cash into chaos with the efficiency of a toaster in a bathtub—time to buy scanners, not more staff lanyards.

About twenty minutes ago, while searching for an excuse to ignore the ironing, I stumbled across a headline that made me splutter my coffee down my favourite T-shirt: “NHS struggles to turn cash into care.” Well slap my forehead with a council tax bill; who could have seen that coming? Oh, that’s right, absolutely everyone who has ever sat in an NHS wai…