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		<title>Why do NHS managers want to keep targets?</title>
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The Public Service web site reports on a survey where 59% of NHS managers say they want to keep the targets that are being dropped by the new government.
Andrew Lansley has said that the 48 hour GP target, the 4 hour A&#38;E target and the 18 week GP to treatment target are to be gradually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/07/why-do-nhs-managers-want-to-keep-targets/</link>
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		<title>Soldiers kill civilians for bonuses</title>
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Indian soldiers in Kashmir are being investigated by the local police because they may be killing civilians and then claiming that they are Islamic militants.
Human rights activist Parvez Imroz was interviewed in an article by The Guardian where he said that soldiers received bonuses for each kill. He added that,
&#8220;There are vested interests that have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/soldiers-kill-civilians-for-bonuses/</link>
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		<title>Outsourced call centre rethink</title>
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The Chief Executive of Northern Ireland Water is having a rethink about its outsourced call centre, according to the Belfast Telegraph.
Laurence McKenzie said that,
&#8220;One of the things that keeps me awake at night is the impetus we need  to give to customer service. We have far too many at the  minute, I believe, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/outsourced-call-centre-rethink/</link>
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		<title>Why performance related pay is bad for the public sector</title>
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Glyn Lumley has written an excellent blog post entitled 10  reasons why performance-related pay should not be used in the public  sector and I recommend reading it before proceeding with this post.
I would like to add reason 11, which is hinted at in Glyn&#8217;s reasons 8 and 9. He cites Daniel Pink and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/why-performance-related-pay-is-bad-for-the-public-sector/</link>
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		<title>The alternative to ring-fencing</title>
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Age UK has called for the social care budget to be ring-fenced like the money for the NHS has been. They claim that social care has an effect on the NHS and cutting its budget will drive demand into the NHS. They are no doubt right, but they are using a classic silo-thinking trick. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/the-alternative-to-ring-fencing/</link>
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		<title>Surgery targets endanger patient safety</title>
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The BBC reports that
About one in five of the nearly 600 surgeons questioned by Bournemouth University reported being involved in incidents, during a two-week period, where patients were harmed.
Using the figures further on in the article of 549 surgeons questioned and 19% seeing harm, that means that in two weeks, 104 surgeons saw a patient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/surgery-targets-endanger-patient-safety/</link>
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		<title>Call centres facing self-imposed effectiveness hell</title>
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The Mirror has an exclusive report, Call centre staff facing targets hell.
Workers in call centres in Britain claim they are being treated like battery hens and say conditions are getting worse.
The Mirror has uncovered shocking working conditions with some staff allowed just EIGHT minutes for their toilet breaks during an eight-hour shift and others getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/call-centres-facing-self-imposed-effectiveness-hell/</link>
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		<title>Local Gov Camp Review &#8211; Part Two</title>
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This is the second part of the report of the Local Gov Camp &#8211; Yorkshire and Humber event. You can read the first part here.
I wanted to break it into two since the first part is quite positive, I was very impressed with the enthusiasm of the attendees to firstly come in their own free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/local-gov-camp-review-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Local Gov Camp Review &#8211; Part One</title>
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Today I went to Local Gov Camp &#8211; Yorkshire and Humberside to find out about social media in local government. The day was run on an unconference format which is quite like Open Space but even looser, if you can imagine that.
Digital Vision
The first session was about a digital vision &#8211; where do we see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/local-gov-camp-review-part-one/</link>
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		<title>A target is not a plan</title>
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In the News section of the May 2010 edition of Qualityworld (who I have written for) there is a report on a vote by readers on which of the political parties have the best appreciation of change. I noted that one respondent wrote,
The Tories&#8217; critisism of targets indicates that they do not understand the basic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worthsolutions.com/blog/2010/06/a-target-is-not-a-plan/</link>
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