A former consultant has sent me the following email:

"I don't know whether you have had a chance to look at the King's Fund report which is reported in the Sunday Times, but is available on the Fund's website. The wording of the report is very biased in favour of Labour.

"For example, what their own figures and histograms show is that the number of patients waiting is now the same as in 1987, the median and average times for in-patient waiting has actually increased and is now about the same as in March/Sept 1996.

"Since 1999, the number of intensive care beds has increased by just 200! and the overall bed numbers has remained static, but managers have increased from about 22,000 to 35,000 since 1997. Its fairly obvious what has happened, most of the money has gone on administration, but reading the King's Fund report, that is not what they say!

"I leave you to look thro the rest, there is plenty to go on!"

The King's Fund "audit" of the NHS under Labour is here.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in NHS

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