eagle eye understands that surgical stockings - those delightfully sexy two inch thick tights that have been around for years - don't work.

doctors have been prescribing them for years for people who have, or are at risk of, blood clots.

but now, research in several countries has shown that they have no effect whatsoever.

so now, the british national health service is going to stop using them, saving themselves £7 million a year.

but no-one has yet said...

a) what will happen to the thousands of surgical stockings which are no doubt stockpiled in nhs stores all over the country?
b) what will the nhs spend the £7 million on?

but have no fear, eagle eye is here ...

all the doctors who have prescribed them for all these years for no good reason, thus making their patients look like extras in a horror movie, will be forced to wear them at all times during working hours. 
and the £7 million will be shared out among patients who have been wearing them, so they can buy cream cakes.

SORTED.

eeeee, that's better... now, what else needs sorting?