Myth #2: “The NHS is a ‘sacred cow’ that evades reform, and its exceptionalism is its weakness”

Myth #2: “The NHS is a ‘sacred cow’ that evades reform, and its exceptionalism is its weakness” The NHS is the closest thing we have to a national religion – or so it's often said. But many critics have claimed that the high value we place on our health system leads to widespread resistance to its reform. In the second of a series of mythbusting commentaries, Nigel Edwards shows this isn't the case – in fact the NHS has perhaps had much too much reform, of the badly planned kind. Nuffield Trust