Well, we are three-quarters of the way through the year and the NHS seems to be coping well with the vCJD crisis, possibly the only thing it is coping well with. Maybe that's because they hadn't planned for it. Planning in the state sector always seems to involve a lot of meetings, large up front costs and then, not a lot.
But it is strange that they haven't cleared the decks and put the whole system on alert because, some years ago a government expert said that half a million people would die of CJD. Although to be fair, after a rethink, the next year the figure given was 200. Experts aren't called experts for no reason you know.
If I remember rightly, the figure of one million deaths a year by 2017 was also an official prediction. That's not storming along either is it? The figure for this year stands at 69 (and that includes everything linked, including "probable")
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