Take a read of “NHS targets ‘have harmed patients'” at Caleb.
The survey by Bournemouth University – to which 549 general surgeons responded – found that surgeons were often expected to carry out complicated operations within tight timescales and many were operating on patients they hadn’t seen before. Over a period of just two weeks, 40 per cent of surgeons said they had been involved in cases where a patient was nearly harmed and 19 per cent where patients had been harmed.
There’s two sides to this debate and you’ve only covered one side in your article above.
