Targets are not enough. On their own, they’re useless If you develop a target because it sounds good in media interviews, it will wrangle up and contort the services you are trying to improve 🖋️ IanDunt for ipaperviews
Keir Starmer suggested he had returned to the New Labour approach of targets designed to improve performance. . Get Labour into power and it will fix the health service. But whether that’s true or not relies on a simple question: is Starmer an evidence-based politician or just another dogma peddler?, he suggested he had returned to the New Labour approach of targets designed to improve performance.
All very positive. But targets are not enough. On their own, they’re useless. If you develop a target because it sounds good in media interviews, it will wrangle up and contort the services you are trying to improve., for instance, were developed as a kind of under-the-radar decriminalisation strategy for minor drugs use in the last decade. They provided police with the option of a very low level penalty if they found a kid smoking weed. But they were classified as a “recorded crime outcome”.
The target system introduced by New Labour for the NHS, on the other hand, was very well thought through. The best example of this was the four hour wait for A&E. This target, established in the early 2000s, demanded that 98 per cent of patients be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arriving at the hospital.
It was reduced to 95 per cent in 2010. In recent years it has completely fallen apart. In December 2022, less than half of all people going to A&E were seen in four hours. The most recent quarterly figures found 136,131 people waiting more than 12 hours. The reason for that goes to the heart of how the target was constructed. The four hour limit was not simply put in place because it was politically attractive. It was designed to be reflective of an improved performance in the NHS as a whole. Short waits in A&E mean that patients are being quickly processed into the wards. That means there is space on the wards.
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