Frightening level of confusion

The depiction

One can understand the explanation that there was initially huge confusion when the 1970 act was passed but it is utterly unacceptable that there should still be a lack of understanding about respective roles and responsibilities more than 30 years later.

Yet nobody is likely to be surprised at anything happening within the health service in the aftermath of last week’s farcical handling of the suspected SARS case involving a Chinese woman whose diagnosis drifted back and forward between unlikely, to suspected, even to probable SARS.