That's an interesting story and a good illustration of how the media have consistently failed to get any real FACTS across to the public.
Newspapers campaign against top heavy management in the NHS and say that the money should be spent on front-line medical services. When it turns out that the money that is spent on medical services is ending up in the pockets of doctors who are earning up to £100,000 a year in "overtime", the media points the finger at overstretched NHS managers.
Make your bloody minds up. Or, alternatively, stop trying to find easy targets to "blame".
I'm not sure I follow what your point is Lord B. ? How can such excessive overtime be anything other than the result of a flawed system, which is run by far too much management not being efficient and effective?