Livre d'Or

Both of them are bad but in different ways. It was a bad idea for Labour to pour so much effort into a four-hour waiting time target at the expense of lots of other aspects of the healthcare system. It was also a bad idea for the Conservatives to stop measuring performance at all because they only wanted to fund actually directly treating patients. Both of them resulted from the underlying fallacy that the right way to allocate public funds is to prioritize frontline services. Labour made typical leftwing errors: they wanted to centralize everything, they wanted to create lots of managerialism and paperwork about metrics rather than actual outcomes. The Coalition and current government made and are making typical rightwing errors: they want to marketize everything and remove so-called red tape and reduce the government's responsibility to actually run public services.