Small is best. The NHS needs to be broken up | Simon Jenkins

Our once revered health service is a national scandal. After so many failed reforms, it's clear central control has failed

Hundreds of asthma victims die needlessly "because NHS guidelines are routinely neglected". Diabetic children's "lives are at risk because doctors miss threat". Eleven thousand heart patients each year "died because of poor care". Ten thousand cancer patients "die needlessly because of blatant ageism among doctors". And this is just...