Interesting, pay-for-performance ended up putting the NHS further in debt:
Both the consultants’ and GPs’ contracts cost the department more than it expected. GPs achieved more “quality points” “” a device to boost earnings of those who deliver better services, consisting largely of nagging patients to have tests. That added £400 million, while consultants cost £90 million more than expected.
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Once again prooving that all incentive systems work.
Sometimes the incentivised action hits the mark.
Sometimes the incentivised action creates some unanticipated (though predictable) consenquences.
If you go to the original article, it contains some here unmentioned data about thousands of operations in the UK being delayed — some more than 6 months — because of budget overruns in the NHS, due to mismanagement. National health, bring it on.
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