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WITH regard to John Birkett’s review of the pitfalls of PR (Letters, February 2), I am obviously missing something, but am a little puzzled at how… ....
A report from Audit Scotland this week said waiting times for patients whose treatment has been delayed as a result of the pandemic should be published “to enable transparency”. THE most disappointing part of Helen McArdle s recent article ( Watchdog says ‘transparency’ needed on waiting time delays , The Herald, February 17) is the last paragraph indicating external consultants have been drafted by the NHS to address the waiting time issue. My experience in the NHS of such consultants is that they take what ideas they are offered by staff and regurgitate them as their own, no doubt at great expense. How can they be expected to understand the complex machinery of the NHS if management and politicians do not, which is clearly the case? Change rarely happens thereafter through political inertia and fear of voter rebellion. ....