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Martin Vander Weyer: In my hospital bed, I saw the future of the NHS

What's needed is not top-down reform, but continuous improvement from the bottom up

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

I blamed the pheasant casserole, but I did it an injustice. Its only contribution to the drama behind my disappearance in mid-December was a residue of lead shot in the small intestine that briefly confused the radiologist. The real villain revealed by the scan was my appendix, which had taken on the raging, bull-necked, bug-eyed appearance of Ed Balls faced with a set of improving growth figures.

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