Welsh Ambulance Response Rates Show No Improvement
It is reported by the BBC that the Welsh Ambulance Service has improved its response times for Category A emergency calls. These calls are targeted to have an ambulance arrive within 8 minutes 65% of the time. The BBC article states that the percentage has been above 65% for the last three months and that [...]
No such thing as a justified target
No Justified Targets Before the election in May, the three health spokesmen for the major parties debated on television. Obviously the question of targets came up and Andrew Lansley said he would scrap “politically motivated” NHS targets but keep those that were “clinically justified”. The problem is that there is no such thing as a [...]
Targets are all SMART, let’s make measures VVAPID
For many years I have been told that targets should be SMART. This means they should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed. Well actually, all targets are already SMART: SimplisticMeaninglessArbitraryRoad blocksTorture Simplistic Targets are simplistic. Targets are a sledgehammer to crack a nut and they come with no context or method. Targets are imposed [...]
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