Having learnt little from the problems caused by school league tables, now Wes Streeting looks interested in introducing hospital league table into the NHS.
Its just what a workforce already patterned by overwork, exhaustion & burnout, does not need.
With the NHS already losing staff as fast as it can train & recruit them, this just looks like one more body blow intended to strengthen the appeal of the private sector...
not so much a 'solution' as a further attack.
@ChrisMayLA6 League tables in the NHS will be gamed in the same way as CQC inspections were.
A vast amount of middle management time will be spent in massaging the figures and scoring imaginary points.
The time and energy that senior managers will spend coercing those further down the heap will be wasted when all of them want to get on with enabling the clinical staff to provide better healthcare.
I cannot see how areas of health deprivation can be compared with areas of health excellence; how to compare areas where staffing costs & supply are challenging; or how to compare units in 'state of the art' facilities with those struggling in Victorian buildings (or worse - 1980s schemes!).
No fiddling with algorithms will compare them.
It's a bonkers idea that (I hope) will be quietly dropped afte a few years.
That is of course what happened last time round in the first half of the 2000s. #Wesstreeting used to know this but seems to have chosen to forget - one has to hope that his amnesia is not shared by #rachelreeves and #darrenjones !
Last time #alanmilburn damaged the reputation of the #nhs for cost effectiveness - and thus its credibility with #hmtreasury . However given the relative abundance of resources at the time this was not fatal and in time his successors - most notably #andyburnham - managed to repair it. This time round we may not be so lucky!
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