Elisabeth Mahase The BMJNHS productivity is not being accurately measured, underestimating how much work is being done, NHS England’s chief executive officer Amanda Pritchard has said. Pritchard was asked whether the NHS would be able to meet the “ambitious” 2% increase in productivity target set out in the government’s NHS long term workforce plan by MPs during a Health and Social Care Committee hearing on 14 November.1In response she said that the way productivity is measured across the NHS is incorrect. “I think we’ve got a fairly blunt tool …

Source: The Times November 16, 2023 16:02 UTC