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Apparently those hordes of lawyers told them it was OK, as did the government itself (the NHS is the government).
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Apparently those hordes of lawyers told them it was OK, as did the government itself (the NHS is the government).
- a_imho 9y agoAssuming you are right, in that case firing their incompetent lawyers after ponying up a couple of billion pounds in fines would sound like the right course of action.
- DanBC 9y ago> the NHS is the government). No it isn't. For one thing health is devolved in all four UK nations, so there is a separate NHS for Scotland, NI, Wales, and England. And for England the Department for Health is the governmental department, and that's not NHS England. And NHS England isn't "The NHS" - the NHS in England is a bunch of clinical commissioning groups, and acute trusts, and mental health trusts, and GPs, and private providers selling service to the NHS (see eg lots of secure units, or lots of eating disorder inpatient provision). In this story one NHS Hospital Trust (10,000 people employed by that trust, vs 1.7m by the rest of the NHS) made the decision, independently of NHS England or the Department of Health.