WE have run countless stories recently about the dire financial straits in which the NHS finds itself. Both York Hospital and the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group are mired in debt. The same picture is repeated up and down the country.
Yet somehow, now, the NHS is finding the money to provide free internet access in every GP surgery in the Vale of York. Why? This will be a nice little perk for patients, no doubt. But surely there are better things this money could have been spent on.
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