Our ailing health service needs more of a miracle than a ‘vision’

The minister for health, Simon Harris, published a strategy document — a 10-year plan to reform the health service — last week. 

He described it as a “vision”. I think it’s fair to say that if the minister had a launch saying he intended to land on the moon before his 35th birthday (three years away) the public would have responded with more credulity.

The feeling on the ground is that our ailing health service needs more by way of miracle than vision.