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Theme : efficiency
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NHS Productivity
Opening the papers this morning, it looks like Derek Wanless has thrown the efficiency cat amongst the NHS pigeons. We already knew that a large proportion of extra NHS funding went on staff wages, yet according to Wanless we have seen little increase in productivity. Improvements in smoking cessation and increased life expectancy are being countered by increasingly poor lifestyles/obesity and rising health inequalities between rich and poor.According to NHS statistics total staffing (FTE) in...
from : faizalfarook
11th September 2007
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Efficient at what?
It's one of those enduring questions about public services - how do we combine efficiency and democracy, or efficiency and public virtue, or efficiency and... etc etc?Patrick Diamond writes eloquently about this in his new pamphlet on public service reform. Case studying the BBC, he accepts that markets can only go so far, and that they do create tensions with a more traditional set of public service values. His argument is the tried and tested 'trade off' one - essentially that public value...
from : simonparker
19th July 2006
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Comprehensive Spending Review 2004
Comprehensive Spending Review document issued by HMT in 2004.
from : sophiaparker
20th June 2006
