Waiting-time targets are frequently used by policy makers in the healthcare sector to monitor provider's performance …. Such targets are based on the distribution of the patients on the list. We compare and link such distribution with the …

Performance targets are commonly used in the public sector, despite their well known problems when organisations have … multiple objectives and performance is difficult to measure. It is possible that such targets may work where there is … English National Health Service (NHS) to waiting time targets. Long waiting times have been a key issue for the NHS for many …

waiting times. As a result, the English government in 2000 adopted the use of an aggressive policy of targets coupled with the … has been dubbed ‘targets and terror’. We estimate the effect of the English target regime for waiting times for hospital … unpublished data are used but, regardless of the data source, the ‘targets and terror’ regime in England lowered the proportion of …

waiting times. As a result, the English government in 2000 adopted the use of an aggressive policy of targets coupled with … been dubbed ‘targets and terror’. We estimate the effect of the English target regime for waiting times for hospital care … data are used but, regardless of the data source, the ‘targets and terror’ regime in England lowered the proportion of …