Advocates of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), whether those who work within it or those who don’t but still campaign for it, are very fond of saying that the NHS has been starved of funds. These individuals believe that the NHS is underfunded and that it is becoming more difficult for the NHS to provide the very necessary medical services that it is supposed to.

The problem with this claim of underfunding is that it is not true. You could splurge the entirety of the United Kingdom’s GDP on the NHS and it would still fail and still waste money on rubbish rather than proper treatment for its customers. This is because far from having a funding problem, instead the NHS has a management problem and in particular problems with having a management caste that excels in creating waste and not tackling incompetence.

It should be a matter of concern for all Britons that the NHS, a service that dominates healthcare provision in the UK, should provide value for money. The NHS should spend the money it gets from taxpayers on the NHS’s core functions, which is providing timely, competent and effective healthcare for the Britons who pay for it. It’s in every Briton’s interest that the money that is being expended on the NHS goes into patient care and is not wasted.

Unfortunately it seems that the management of Kings College Hospital in London doesn’t seem to have read any memos on value for money or curbing waste. Instead they’ve spend who knows how much, but which is probably a lot, of money on hiring an artist to decorate a new bridge between two parts of the hospital. The new bridge decoration is a classic example of management virtue signalling, something that does no real good for patients or for staff, but instead makes the management who’ve signed it off feel good and look good in front of their management caste peers.

Kings College Hospital in South East London have decorated this new bridge with a plethora of LGB and T related images, with, as we’ve sadly come to expect these days from our public services, an emphasis, in terms of size and prominence, on the ‘T’. A large portion of the exterior of this new bridge is covered with a traditional Rainbow ‘Freedom Flag’ but also present in a very prominent position is the new ‘inclusive’ rainbow flag, a flag that shows the colours representing the ‘T’ part of the acronym eating into the rainbow flag like some sort of voracious parasite.

Kings College Hospital took to social media to crow about their ‘boldness’ in their choice of design and how this reflected their boldness in healthcare. However to those outside the NHS management caste bubble, this looked like wasted funds that should have been spent on patient care. The hospital got pretty heavily ratioed in the comments from members of the public who were mostly highly critical of the decision to decorate the new bridge in this way. The vast majority of the negative comments were regarding the waste of money that this decoration represents. These commenters are correct, there were far more pressing things and more directly patient connected things that the money spent on this abomination of virtue signalling waste could have been spent on. Others, such as gay and female commentators were remarking critically on the homophobia and misogyny that gender identity ideology contains and having the flag of this ideology, the so-called ‘inclusive’ rainbow flag, permanently painted on the hospital bridge.

As regards how much was wasted on this monstrosity is difficult to ascertain. There is nothing easily identifiable from a quick look over of the KCH accounts, but I would guess that this sort of decoration might leave you will not much change from £50,000, once you take into account the specialist paints, scaffolding and the cost of the designer. Of course, we must also bear in mind that this is the British public sector where fiscal probity is as rare as as a crowing hen and it is quite possible that this decoration might have cost considerably more than my back of a fag packet estimate.

This is utter and disgraceful waste for a hospital to waste so much money on virtue signalling guff when there are clearly unmet needs in the South East of London with regards healthcare. I seethe at the waste, at the resources that could have been used in a better way and at the possibility that someone’s healthcare was less than it should have been and less well funded that it might have been, so that members of the NHS management caste could feel good about themselves by engaging in architectural wank projects, like this bridge decoration.

Britons deserve much better healthcare and healthcare management than what we are getting because what we get at the moment is nothing to be celebrated, no matter how many rainbows they paint over the buildings. What Britain has is a healthcare system that can best be described as patchy in quality and woefully inefficient in service delivery led by a management caste that has become socially remote from those that they are supposed to be serving. This needs to change. We need to have competent management in our healthcare system, not those who cleave tightly and expensively to whatever is the current liberal / left fad, in this case gender ideology.