two days hospital stay, all the attendant medical care, a fully equipped surgical team and time booked in theatre all for nothing - and you can multiply that by the power if five with all the other patients who also got bumped, and all because the NHS is "saving" money by keeping clapped out old kit on the go. I don't know how much my care cost but it must run into tens of thousands and all with no result as the whole thing will have to be done again. Thsi is false economy on a grand scale. The NHS needs to balance teh books and make best use of scarce resources, but this is simply wasting time and resources while not achieving the NHS core aim of improving public health. The UK now has the worst cancer recovery rates in any European country. That is rubbish, recent reports (not by the NHS!) have shown that cancer treatment under the NHS is better than anywhere else in the world. It is also the most cost effective system delivering to ALL the population for only about 8% of GDP. Compare to the US or anywhere else for that matter. Here in the UK, TB was pretty much eradiacted from our society back in the 1970s and 1980s. Now our children are not innoculated against TB any more, and due primarily to massive immigration, the UK is now known as the TB capital of Europe. Immigration or not, in a globalised economy,