WELL, AT LEAST IT WAS A FIASCO WHILE IT LASTED...:

Operations cancelled as NHS runs out of money (Nigel Hawkes, 1/04/07, Times of London)

Patients are being denied basic operations, including treatments for varicose veins, wisdom teeth and bad backs, as hospitals try frantically to balance the books by the end of the financial year, The Times can reveal.

NHS trusts throughout the country are making sweeping cuts to services and delaying appointments in an attempt to address their debts before the end of March.

Just what the world needs...Brits with even worse teeth...

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 3, 2007 11:25 PM