By the time Pooley's day finishes, three more patients will have died.
If they need more, patients will have to return an empty bottle.
"The advantage of these glasses is that they're more practical, and they're something more patients will be able to use".
"In the process, many more patients will die waiting for the good medicines than from using bad ones".
Thousands more patients will also have their cancers genetically tested to identify potential individualised treatments.
For the moment, more patients will use these than proper centres.
More cost-effective hospitals or those attracting more patients will gain from the system, while less efficient trusts could lose out.
If a name change can allow more patients to accept their problem, the logic goes, perhaps more patients will seek treatment.
They know that working slowly means that more patients will be sent to nearby private hospitals, which employ those same surgeons to undertake operations on a case-by-case basis.
Under Stevens' masterplan: More patients will use "self-care" to manage their conditions, including by online means, reducing the need to see a GP, especially those with minor illnesses and long-term conditions.
'The upshot must be that more patients will have suffered broken hips than were necessary because some of the patients that might have had their bone density improved haven't been able to get hold of drugs,' said a spokesman.
