and elsewhere in the Telegraph today is another article that shows how NHS trusts/hospitals are encouraged to change policies so that waiting times and meaningless perfromance indicators chosen by the Government, appear better. Another piece, it may be in the IoS, describes how the police are encouraged to change the description of crimes such as burglaries so that the stats on the most sensitive crimes appear to have "improved".
Blair and his cronies are treating the nation with contempt. the only issue is whether the oppposition would be any better....
yours in gloom,
Skua