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NHS finances have always had the feel of Alice in Wonderland. Which is why the universal, unquestioned drive to divide everything into 'business units' is so barmy. The NHS is not a business in the conventional sense, so business principles applied elsewhere are inappropriate and often result in perverse behaviour. Does that stop each new generation of health ministers? No, we spend billions educating them, then they lose power or get re-shuffled.............

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