As we know, you can only cut so much, before you get down to the bone. All that is obvious, surely. Just look around at the wider scenario throughout the UK (
eg, the decimation of industry, ditto the TA, Armed Forces being asked to make selfless sacrifices every day - for what? ... and all the rest); there comes a point where too much has been pared away, and the whole thing becomes non-viable.
The NHS is a bottomless hole in which to chuck money. But, if the Public continue to aspire to a "free at the point of care" health service, then that's what it takes. That is, it is not actually free at all. Just that the cost is, shall we say, a burden shared (in theory at least) by all.
The kit will always be there. And, as has already been mentioned a couple of times, it seems set to increase in number, rather than the reverse. So if "they" want it properly supported, then the resources have to be in place, one way or another, to do that. It's up to "them" (the over-paid Big Shots) to decide if they want the kit properly maintained, or not. It's their call. As I keep saying, "Rocket Science it ain't"!
But see the current thread about "Risk-based PM". In my opinion, it is one of the few sensible, practical, ways of taking matters forward, as it were.
