Or, why it’s right to have markets in the public services. As Paul Krugman said, productivity isn’t everything but in the long run it’s pretty much everything. So these aren’t good numbers: The ONS calculates public service productivity by counting the number of procedures carried out in hospitals, pupils taught in schools and
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TimWorstall on 28th Jul 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Much is being made by the usual anti-public sector suspects of last week’s ONS stats. Here is David Smith in today’s Sunday Times for example: The other noteworthy development was the publication by the Office for National Statistics of new productivity estimates for the public sector....
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Tigmoo on 14th Jun 2009 (via touchstoneblog.org.uk)
Productivity across schools, hospitals, police and other services dropped by 3.2 per cent between 1997 and 2007, according to research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Gosh! You mean that shovelling money at political client groups with gay abandon, refusing to challenge the extant structure, means that it’s necessary to pay more to get less? Who knew? Sure,
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TimWorstall on 10th Jun 2009 (via timworstall.com)
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...
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TaxPayersAlliance on 11th Jun 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
Taxpayers are to get the right to rate the performance of their local schools nurseries GPs and police in a planned shakeup of public services.
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Telegraph on 14th Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Hospitals and schools would be reorganised in a John Lewis 'mutual' system under Labour plans to revitalise public services.
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Telegraph on 12th Nov 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Public sector workers are staging strikes against proposed changes in their pension arrangements, affecting schools, hospitals, airports and council services.
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Telegraph on 30th Nov 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
If Cameron wins the next election the most optimistic I can be is that within a year public services will return to 1997 levels. I know that people have short memories, but can anyone remember public services in 1997? Surely you can. After 18 years of Tory cuts and failed "reforms" we had long waiting lists, large class sizes, hospitals and schools literally falling apart, and the morale of clinic...
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Labourhome on 5th May 2009 (via labourhome.org)
The axe is poised over billions of pounds worth of new and refurbished schools and hospitals after it was made clear that the cuts and suspensions to public sector projects were just a foretaste of what is to come
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FT on 17th Jun 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Fancy stats, but the picture remains the same For many years now, the Office for National Statistics has been beavering away trying to develop measures of output and productivity in our public services. It hasn't been at all straightforward, as...
Fancy stats, but the picture remains the same For many years now, the Office for National Statistics has been beavering away trying to develop measures of output and productivity in our public services. It hasn't been at all straightforward, as we can see by glancing at the dense array of statistical formulae they have been forced to deploy. So why is it important? Because we've shovelle...
