I have in front of me two newspaper articles. The headlines tell it all. Nick Cohen asked us to, ‘Just imagine what the NHS could do with the £20bn wasted on sick IT.’ (Observer 4 June, 2006). The Guardian's health correspondents (13 June, 2006) wrote, ‘Doctors fight to save drug guidance from government axe.’ Cohen's story is not just of the runaway costs of the government's determination to bring in a comprehensively computerised NHS, but of the large amounts of money paid to management consultants. These …