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@lewiscowles1986 @ChrisMayLA6 Public sector bodies are *punished* for innovation, because there is an ideological belief that the public sector is, and must be, inefficient and backwards. Which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and is enthusiastically enforced by ministers committed to privatization.

For instance, when local councils had a recruitment problem for some specialist expertise, they offered a 4 day week. It worked, and saved them a load of money.

Cue government ministers threatening to ban it.

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Lewis Cowles

@matthewtoad43 @ChrisMayLA6 Measuring hours vs output is such a diseased thought process.

But it can be hard to manage as a framework of autonomous, repsonsible people; because bad actors may not be any of those things, and it sadly needs beurocracy to ensure checks and balances are kept.

Hard on this one.

12 April at 13:45 | Open on phpc.social

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@matthewtoad43 @lewiscowles1986 @ChrisMayLA6 Innovation in the public sector exposes the lie that nobody does their best unless there is competition, but some people do their best work when there is less pressure and they don't fear failure.

12 April at 13:50 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Epistatacadam

@matthewtoad43 @lewiscowles1986 @ChrisMayLA6 there is a whole government funded movement of which NICE is part, to prevent innovation in the NHS. The IHI lambasts any variation from mean, hence blocks improvement! Variation must precede improvement....

12 April at 13:56 | Open on toot.wales