- Muir Gray, director,
- Anant Jani, senior adviser,
- Alf Collins, senior adviser
- Oxford Value and Stewardship Programme, Oxford, UK
- muir.gray{at}oapltd.com
A cash injection of £32bn to the NHS might be what The BMJ wants,1 but it is not what England needs. The people of England need The BMJ to work with the Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS to identify and disinvest from unnecessary, and often harmful, prescriptions, tests, and treatments on which vast amounts of finite taxpayers’ money are being wasted. In 2017, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimated that …