When Dan Hannan criticised the Nationalised Health Service, the new mini-minister condemned him as unpatriotic. Frank Field has now looked at its poor productivity record under Labour. The figures are pretty startling. Wat Tyler gives some examples from the consultants' report of how this has come about. For Frank the solution is to require the bits with a poor productivity record to improve....

There has been study after study of NHS productivity since the Office for National Statistics first tried to measure health output. Since then they have included estimates of the change in quality. The Today programme reported this morning that their...

Plans to close some coastguard centres around the UK would raise "serious safety concerns" and has little support, an MP report says.

Norman Lamb - who previously threatened to quit over planned changes to the NHS - said he can support revisions to the plan and claimed Liberal Democrats have been a "safety valve" on the issue.

The Tories justify their policy to privatise parts of the NHS by claiming that the private sector is more productive/ But it is quite clear from the figures that the private sector is considerably more expensive than the NHS. Andrew Lansley may be right that productivity is increasing in the private sector, but it will need to have some very impressive improvements for it to reach the productivity...

The Welsh NHS has lower levels of productivity and poor waiting time performances compared to England, a report finds.

NHS productivity has fallen by 3 per cent, or 0.4 per cent a year on average, since 2001, the latest official figures show

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Health Secretary responding to today's report by the Nuffield Trust said: "Today's report shows just how well the NHS is doing in England on waiting times, treatments and productivity. "It's a real tribute to the hard work and dedication of NHS staff and to Labour's investment and reform over the last decade. Our relentless focus on getting waitin...

This new report of theirs fails I’m afraid. Growing a Better Future. Fails on two levels. The first will seem a little technical but it’s summed up here: It should be emphasized that the model does not capture potential increases in agricultural productivity that are likely to result from increased research and development efforts incentivized

An ONS report published on Tuesday revealed that productivity in the public sector has declined by 3.2% since 1997. This is the first such report carried out using the recommendations of the 2005 Atkinson Review, which rightly highlighted the need...