Posts Tagged good to great
Batten down the hatches
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 21/12/2009
The change in times seems marked. In its 2002 command paper, Delivering the NHS Plan, the government adopted a new paradigm that choice and competition was the means to a more efficient and responsive service:
‘If it is to better respond to the needs of patients the NHS can no longer be run as a monolithic, top-down, monopoly provider… Patients will choose hospitals… [and] changes to the funding flows and incentives will… enable all providers – public or private – who offer good quality and value for money to more easily provide services for NHS patients…’
The NHS: from good to great? Hmm…
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 10/12/2009
From good to great. The latest ‘vision’ for the NHS. But if it is one, it is wholly unclear. Rather, it is a typical mish-mash of government rhetoric, loud on promise, short on reality. Read the introduction and tell me what the vision is…