Simply throwing money at the NHS won’t solve all its problems | Simon Jenkins

Billions will be wasted as long as the health service remains hyper-centralised and disconnected from local authorities

Watch the news each day and you might regard Britain’s NHS as a black, swirling pit into which ever vaster sums of money constantly vanish. All it does is answer back with screams of hospitals near collapse, queueing ambulances outside hospitals, year-long waiting lists, postponed tests and staffing crises. The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, obsessed with daily headlines, hurls billio...