Readers will remember that the Conservative Party had a very clear policy on NHS waiting time targets. During the five years leading up to the last election they were consistently promising that if they were to win they would drop waiting time targets – and when they came to power they did just that.
They spent the year between winning power in May 2010 and May 2011 dismantling the sets of relationships between Whitehall and the NHS that had signified the public’s concern about maximum waiting time targets.
