
Howard Flight: Parkinson’s Law revisited
The NHS employs 1.75 million people and is too monolithic. The number of civil servants has risen to 460,000. This is territory which the Chancellor needs to examine in detail.
The NHS employs 1.75 million people and is too monolithic. The number of civil servants has risen to 460,000. This is territory which the Chancellor needs to examine in detail.
It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.
“Bad management” or “the wrong skills” or “incompetent people” are held up as the root cause of bad government.My central gripe is that I doubt this is true.
My new pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies sets out a programme which would empower voters truly to Take Back Control.
My local secondary schools were no-go areas and no one from my primary school went to one. That won’t be my children’s experience, and he can take a lot of credit.
On the whole, pay rises should go to those on the frontline, or be used for recruitment and retention, or be based on performance.
The party’s Vice Chairman for Policy was being pressed on police cuts.
These archaic machines cause NHS patients to miss appointments, hospitals to lose records, and cost millions of pounds in paper storage each year.
The new group’s platform is not very inspiring. But its biggest problem is it they won’t be very different from the Conservatives’.
We spend £251 billion each year on outsourcing and contracting without evidence that this is a good deal for taxpayers.
Our new, outcome-focused, and patient-centric plans fit into a long tradition of careful Conservative stewardship of the Health Service.
The Comprehensive Spending Review has to be seen as a way to reset the narrative. Government need to focus on reform as a positive – not expenditure.
Some on the left – and perhaps the right too – believe this agenda has run out of runway. Here are a few ideas to get it airborne.
“Using their own money would enable older people to take greater control over their care options.”
A highways partnership deal has resulted in fewer potholes, new street lighting – and saved a million pounds a year.