The red mist

Leaning comfortably back in a chair in his Harley Street office, Dr Karol Sikora does not seem afraid of expressing his opinions. Criticising the current public health system, he smiles as he nicknames the NHS "the last bastion of communism in Europe". "I think it is dreadful. The whole system has to be chopped down. We need to demolish the icons of the past - waiting times, targets and political propaganda - and crack them apart like the statues of Lenin scattered around Eastern Europe," Dr Sikora argues. He says it with a glimmer in his eye, but there is no mistaking his determination...