NHS: 'It can't go on as it is and throwing more money at it is not the answer...' is a mantra we hear a lot these days and it presages a change that only a thumping majority for the Tories would allow them to attempt. We all have anecdotes about the wonderful/shocking - usually wonderful - treatment we've received at the hands of the NHS but I've heard some corkers recently (from practitioners) about appalling waste and their paranoid fear of being sued that leads to arse covering, over prescribing, doling out unnecessary antibiotics etc, and about undeserving, demanding, insulting, violent 'patients' that lead me to think the mantra is right. It can't go on. Anyway, my original point was about the routine, rabid demonisation of the Tories, which apart from being a huge YAWN, is pretty irrational IMO.