The Independent - London, September 24th, 1995
THERE is a gap, says the think-tank Healthcare 2000, "between resources and demand". How much more compelling its report would have been if it had come out straight and declared that the NHS was short of the cash it needed for the job! But no, it had to go for abstractions like resources and demand, the vocabulary of officialdom, which ordinary people are wary of.
It's not that resources is an inaccurate word for what it was trying to say. The Old French resoudre meant to rise again, and a resource is a means of supplying a deficiency (and thence also "a reserve") - just what we are told the ...
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