Manipulated?

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2285621/NHS-hit-new-hospital-deaths-cover-day-Man-With-No-Shame-faces-showdown-meeting.html

Are they really suggesting that statistics...NHS statistics can be "manipulated?"

[douglas9401]

The very idea, eh?

[Sqad]

;-)

[Canary42]

Of course they can. That's the whole problem with Thatcher's "League Table" mentality - as soon as you introduce something like that people's attention turns towards fiddling the figures rather than the actual job in hand.

It's ruining the NHS, public transport, etc etc.

[Sqad]

Canary...I thought that the Labour government introduced league tables...but i may well be wrong.

[LazyGun]

Hospital League Tables were first introduced in the UK by the tories in 1993/94 by John Majors government, along with league tables to rate the performance of school,s the police, and local authorities.

No question that the public were entitled to have more information on the performance of their local services, but the type of information and the way that information has been presented - and what that information is used for, funding - has long been debated.

If this is shown to be an administrative sleight of hand, a re-classification with the management to enable greater funding then thats bad enough- should it prove to be false attribution of cause of death or falsification of death certificates by clinicians, that is shocking.

[Sqad]

LazyGun...thanks.....quite correct.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/231572.stm

[youngmafbog]

The labour Government continued them throughout their reign and added more. I dont recall His Tonyness, or Bottler, looking to remove them in fact quite the opposite.

Trying to insinuate it is totally tory policy is rather laughable.

Having said that, do you have abetter method for monitoring then Canary? Because that is the problem, no monitoring and it all goes haywire too.