Bibliographic record
Abstract
In some ways, New Labour has presented a tale of two health policies. In opposition, and in the early years of government, the general line was that improving the NHS required the abolition of the internal market rather than a major injection of extra resources. However, as the Conservatives found, claims of improved statistics of health policy failed to convince the public, who perceived that the service was getting worse. The most significant evolution of New Labour’s health policy came not with the White Paper of December 1997, The new NHS: Modern, dependable (DoH, 1997), but two years later. The decision by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Treasury to“stick to the Tory spending limits” for the first two years of the New Labour government meant that structural tinkering (as promulgated by the December 1997 White Paper) did not materially change the public’s perception of the NHS. It was arguably an ‘evaluation’ in January 2000 by the independent-minded Labour peer Lord (Robert) Winston in the New Statesman that the NHS was in a worse state than the health service in Poland, and that New Labour had failed to keep its promises (including the abolition of the internal market) that prompted the second phase (cf Timmins, 2001). Although some of this was later qualified, the message was clear: the jewel in New Labour’s crown, the NHS, required significant polishing. This came in the form (first) of the Prime Minister’s announcement of new money in February 2000 and (second) of the NHS Plan, announced in July 2000.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".