Welcome Catherine

More cash for the sinkhole?

Catherine is an accountant. We are delighted that she joined us as a paid subscriber. Her rationale for joining us that she has always wondered where all the NHS money went. So did we and bit by bit we are trying to piece the story together. As we wrote it’s not easy. Readers’ comments are a great help and if anyone spots a funny sounding body lurking in the bowels of the NHS, please do alert us.

So far the most striking aspect are the discrepancies in the various estimates of budgets and the sanitised versions of the wiring diagram presented to Parliament.

As we mentioned before, we are slowly building a “who does what” table, and the amount of duplication is already evident. However rest easy: 1.8 of your GPs (well let’s round it to two), have one financier looking after them.

Perhaps even more alarming is the news this morning that HM Chancellor wants to plough more cash into the sinkhole - boxed ticked for the “winter pressures”: let’s move on over the frozen bodies of a few pensione…