Why Has Nobody Thought of it Before?

If only everything in life were as simple as solving the National Health Service. After mere decades of budget cuts, pay cuts, staff deportations, bureaucratic metastasis, open contempt from ministers, and electorates who applaud with their hands and vote with their jingo, it transpires that the whole problem is rooted in the NHS simply not being populist enough. Accordingly Team Starmer's chief sales executive in waiting has a plan, if plan is the word I want, to link hospital funding to the approval ratings bestowed by patients. This of course means that (a) the fate of hospitals and their staff will depend on people who don't know anything about managing either; and (b) presumably those hospitals too under-funded to provide a satisfactory service will end up being more under-funded still. Hence, as with many another Team Starmer policy, the Change™ from previous maladministrations may not be quite so radical as it first appeared.