Willial, you are quite right. There is a disproportionate number of bureaucrats compared to actual health workers in hospitals. Also, because of the "free" ambulance service, that service is used and abused. There are frequent stories in the press about ambulances being used as virtual taxi services. About two months ago, I had to take my daughter to SCUH hospital. The 5 hour wait was bad enough, but where we were sitting we could overhear the ambos talking between jobs. One pair were about to drive a patient home and said it would be 2 hours each way. The patient walked to the ambulance. He could just as easily have walked to the taxi rank!
Services that are viewed as being "free", aren't really! They are also open to abuse. I am a firm believer in all public hospital outpatients paying a levy no less than they would pay at a GP, to dissuade that kind of patient. Ditto, for ambulances. It is important to break this mindset some people have.
