2010 - 2021 NHS productivity growth: -5.3% Overall productivity growth: 6.2% NHS real wage growth: -4.5% Private sector real wage growth: 0.6% So the NHS got trashed by COVID. Who knew? (View Post)

Figure 8 shoes that NHS productivity was growing quite a bit in the run up to the pandemic, up nearly 25% compared with 1997. Given overall productivity growth has been rubbish, you might actually fi… (View Post)

Careful - there was a study going round that showed the massive cut in middle management from 2010 onwards led to consultants doing loads of paperwork, killing productivity. I don't have an answ… (View Post)

The NHS is brilliant at keeping very ill people alive, and innovative in doing so. Just look at the fall in heart disease related deaths for men. This is incredibly expensive. It would better for tho… (View Post)

He's so impressive. I can scarcely imagine the level of stress, the fear as Trump got in, the withdrawal of aid and then military support, the personal physical danger. Through it all, a brave f… (View Post)