title: With such an NHS staff shortfall, who will work on the 'mothballed' wards?
abstract: I was interested to read your article about Lord Carter of Coles' report on saving the NHS £5 billion a year (analysis, February 17). However, the article and Lord Carter's report fail to mention the £4.5 billion wasted on the NHS internal market, which adds nothing to patient care according to independent and parliamentary reports into the NHS since 2010.
authors.affiliation: London.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chilver
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom