paper examines a nat-ural experiment in regimes applied to waiting list targets for hospitaladmissions in England and Wales … forwaiting times: in England, failure resulted in sanctions in a process of`naming and shaming', but in Wales, failure was … shaming' in England. We found thatthis policy did indeed reduce waiting times in England as comparedwith Wales. However, there …

are important issues,affecting a crucial part of the lives of nearly four million households in England and the useof …