Sunday, 18 March 2007

How to waste money

No content with paying hundreds of millions of pounds to management consultants, and wasting billions on a computer system that will never work, now this:

The NHS is spending thousands of pounds to hold job interviews with junior doctors in luxury hotels, football stadiums and even at a racecourse.

David Cameron talks to junior doctors protesting in London
David Cameron talks to junior doctors protesting in London

Despite the health service having a deficit of more than £500 million at the end of the last financial year, meeting rooms in hospitals have been shunned in favour of expensive external locations which include the Reebok Stadium, home to Bolton Wanderers, and Newmarket Racecourse.

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