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Damned Targets?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: March 18, 2009

“On Tuesday, the Healthcare Commission report revealed that between 2005 and 2008 there were 400 excess deaths at [Stafford] hospital – although it was impossible to say whether these had all been caused by bad care. The report said there were deficiencies at “virtually every stage” of emergency care and managers pursued targets to the […]

Tagged With: NHS, performance, targets

Rate your doctor on-line? – another Whitehall-centric initiative

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: March 11, 2009

Even when the Government claims to be ’empowering patients’ it manages to do it in a Whitehall-centric way.

Tagged With: NHS, performance, public services, spending, Whitehall

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