There is no depth to which they won't stoop:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17755552
NHS 'paid £17 for gluten-free pizza base'
Two prescription gluten-free pizza bases can cost the NHS as much as £34, BBC Newsnight has learned.
The NHS spent £27m on gluten-free prescriptions in 2011, but handling and delivery charges, which can quadruple the cost, are not recorded.
Another example comes from Dr Fayyaz Choudri, a GP who was responsible for overhauling gluten-free prescriptions in Allerdale, Cumbria.
"We saw there were occasions where there was a bread loaf costing £2.50 and there was a handling fee of £32.00," he says.
With NHS budgets under relentless pressure, these are increasingly being seen as rations the NHS cannot afford.
Watch Liz MacKean's full report on gluten-free prescriptions on Thursday 24 May at 22:30 BST on BBC Two, then afterwards on the BBC iPlayer and Newsnight website.
Why don't you report on something that's in the fucking public interest? Of all the things you could possibly give space to on Newsnight, you think it's worthwhile to have a 'full report' on gluten-free pizza bases? The UK has £5 trillion of unfunded liabilities, actually pretty much all of Europe is flat broke, riots on the streets of Canada, Greece in flames...I know, let's run with the pizza base story. Maybe we can fit in some climate change propaganda later on.
Oooh, the NHS is wasting your money, it would be so much more efficient to privatise it (which is already happening). Actually, I can think of another wasteful, useless organisation that completely relies on public money to survive. I can't remember the name of it exactly, but it start with 'B' and ends in 'C'.
