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I think that's a part of it but what are bean counters for if they're not counting beans? You'd have thought the prospect of cuts to jobs and services might make them see how important it is to implement what are relatively simple savings. If not that, then the concern for patient care we're always hearing about ought to encourage them to make every pound count. It's just ridiculous that so much money can routinely be wasted at a time like this and something needs to be done about it.

I'd like to think the results of this exercise are urgently being circulated throughout the NHS and that there'll be a corresponding decrease in such overspending/wastage but I wouldn't be at all surprised that the next investigation doesn't reveal more of the same.