Michael Watson questions why commissioning remains the cornerstone to provision of healthcare across the NHS including dentistry
The fiasco over West Coast Main Line rail franchise raises questions of whether ministers or civil servants can be trusted with commissioning projects in the future. Alasdair Palmer writing in the Daily Telegraph described it as ‘the latest in a long line of blunders in the way the state awards contracts to private companies.’
The Department of Health is not immune from this, remember the project to modernise the NHS computer systems, abandoned after £12 billion had been spent and wasted. Yet commissioning remains the cornerstone to provision of healthcare across the NHS including dentistry.
