By 2005, all the patients inside the NationalHealthServicesystem that have operations will have them through booked appointments, not the old waiting list system...
In one of the most memorable scenes from the former, 600 staff members of the NationalHealthService participated in a number that celebrated the British health-care system.
That kind of thinking has led to the botched computerisation in Britain's NationalHealthService, where billions of pounds and millions of precious hours are spent on a system that at best will be substandard and at worst dangerously leaky with patients' private medical data.