NHS reform? Just another dish for this obese dinosaur | Simon Jenkins

Andrew Lansley's bid to introduce local choice and competition in the NHS will, like previous ones, achieve the opposite

Britain has two health services: the first is a daily wrestle with doctor's appointments, blood tests, A&E desks and outpatient visits; the second is an obese and distant dinosaur lumbering across the horizon, weighed down by 60 years of bureaucratic fat, tradition and restrictive practice, its breath stinking of waste. Intrepid hunters sally forth to fight it. They never...