Health, health, health. Viewers of PMQs must be sick of it by now. Health this, health that. Health, health. On and on. Ad nauseam.
Today’s exchanges involved the usual tussle over which Superman can save the NHS. Dave and his virile economy or Ed with his honked out assertions that he’s the patient’s champion?
The only place where healthcare isn’t massively overstretched is west Africa. Tory Edward Garnier revealed that a spanking new hospital in Sierra Leone, completed with UK money, and run by Save the Children, is currently treating just five patients.
So that’s how you hit waiting time targets. Run the place so badly that everyone runs in the opposite direction.
Cameron promised to chivvy this somnolent facility into life. Sarah Newton, from Falmouth, informed us that a hospital gunboat, RFA Argus, is steaming towards the African coast to relieve the ebola hot-spot. Let’s hope the Argus stays afloat but if it sinks it’ll go down bows first.
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