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Performance related pay has no bearing on GPs’ job satisfaction

By Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted:

In 2004 the Quality and Outcomes Framework was developed to combat GP’s dissatisfaction regarding pay and working conditions, a major component being performance related pay.  Fast forward 10 years and shifts away from performance pay are now occurring. Thomas Allen, research fellow in Health Economics examines whether removing the measure will impact the working lives of GPs: The Quality […]

Quality Performance Data – for the NHS and everyone else too?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

A new Audit Commission report published today assesses progress in improving data quality – especially performance data – in the NHS. It reports on-going problems with embedding a culture of good data quality into NHS organisations.

Damned Targets?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

“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 […]

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

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

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

From CPA to CAA – Local Government Gets Lost in Translation?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

The Audit Commission published its final CPA (comprehensive performance assessment) report on English local government this week.

Public Value – the next ‘Big Thing’ in public management?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

Are we about to enter a new era of public management? There are good reasons to think that this may be the case.

Sir Fred Goodwin’s Pension: Pay for Performance?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

One thing that the current financial crisis ought to do is raise a serious debate amongst public policy makers about pay for performance – in the private and public sectors.

The Art of Performance

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

The major first report by the UK’s latest ‘think tank’, the Institute for Government led by well-known and outspoken former Permanent Secretary Sir Michael Bichard, bodes well for the future of the new body. It is a serious, measured and balanced account of many of the achievements and problems experienced in the UK.

Capable in a Crisis?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

Sir Gus O’Donnell, head of the UK civil service, in a recent speech outlined why he thought the British civil service would perform well in the current financial and economic crisis. In an article – “Mandarin-tinted glasses” – published in Public Finance magazine, I ask questions just how well Whitehall is really doing – based on […]

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