http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/sq...36514.html

That's a waste of £5m rather than just £4m. This is not a small amount of money as it is more than the difference between a hospital balancing their books and a 'working surplus' (not spending 1% of the money allocated by the government). Since this was the justification for taking a look at Lewisham's books, it shows that not only is the cure worse than the illness, but the act of diagnosis is worse than the diagnosis itself.