Helen Joyce
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181 appearances
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first heard Dec 2012
last heard Jan 2015
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Six hospitals declare major incidents amid the worst A&D waiting figure times for a decade.
We cited in the article this pair of academics, Kelly and Simmons, who had done an extraordinary internet search of rankings and they had found that from, say, pre-1974, when there was basically nothing like this, to now, it's multiplied by many, many, many times the number of country rankings.
mixture of reasons.
One is just the internet.
The data's available.
And then the second reason is also to do with the internet.
They're catnip for the sorts of things that get shared on social media.
People love rankings.
And then this feeds back into people who create indices.
That's why they do it.
If you have a policy that you want to get taken seriously, one great thing you can do is create an index.
It'll get picked up.
It'll get reported.
It'll get shared.
It's meticulous.
They go to an enormous amount of trouble and they don't produce a ranking from the results, although they do score countries.
They try to explain to journalists and everyone else who uses it that, you know, there's a margin of error around each country, that it's not fair to make a lot of one or two points of difference.
Of course people do produce a ranking from it.
We did pick out one index called the Global Slavery Index, and it's produced by an NGO called Walk Free.
It's tackling a very important subject, which is modern-day slavery, including things like child marriage, forced trafficking of people, forced labour.
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