As per previous email exchanges, I would strongly urge people to look
objectively at all the evidence on these issues. It is quite clear to me
that some scholars approach these matters with preconceived normative
views about, for example "competition", or "targets", without bothering
with the tiresome problem of looking in a balanced way at the evidence. On
'performance' (measurement, targets, etc) there are quite clearly scholars
who are "for" and others who are "agin" and in both cases tend to produce
evidence that 'supports' their stance (and ignore evidence that doesn't),
even tho as usual with human systems things in reality are rather more
messy and less clear cut than we'd perhaps all like.
In this context, going to a single authority figure for the definitive
'line' doesn't strike me as good scholarship or good policy-making. When I
gave evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee this week, for
example, they tried to get a panel of diverse expert opinion on the matter
in hand. As it happened, in this case there was almost unanimity on the
key issues across the half-dozen witnesses on Tues and at previous
sessions (on the top jobs in the Civil Service). In the case of markets
and competition in the NHS there is clearly not such unanimity. Evidence
and views are more mixed.
best
Colin R. Talbot,
Professor of Government and Public Administration
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Latest book: Theories of Performance
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Theories-Performance-Organizational-Service-Improv
ement/dp/0199575959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318367518&sr=8-1>, Oxford
University Press, 2010
Blogs:
Whitehall Watch <http://whitehallwatch.org/>
and the
Public Management Research Sessions
<http://publicmanagement.wordpress.com/>
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International Journal of Public Administration
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On 17/11/2011 09:19, "Ted Harding" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>The following is based on an email sent privately to me
>by an EBH subscriber:
>
>[A]:
>It woulod be very useful to get in touch with Professor Allyson
>Pollock asap, she is undoubtedly the leading academic in England
>on these specific issues:
>
>http://www.icms.qmul.ac.uk/chs/staff/allysonpollock.html
>
>[B]
>Watch out for the (possibly impending) publication of the Report
>to which the following refers:
>
>http://wallofcontroversy.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/
>campaign-to-save-the-nhs-urgent-call-for-release-of-hidden-report
>
>
>That's all for the moment!
>Ted.
>
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