Certainly almost all the NHS's key performance waiting time targets, the meeting of which was until quite recently regarded as a must-do for hospital bosses, have gone to pot under the coalition.
"It is frustrating at the moment as I think just scratching under the surface there is a great performance waiting to happen, and I am sure that performance will come".
He goes on to describe attending several Broadway shows the actress appeared in over the years, giving Shields flowers after a performance, waiting for her at the stage door, and purchasing an expensive gift for Shields to mark the birth of her daughter.
The report contains the story of a promising project by CARA Operations, a Canadian restaurant franchisor, that was going to help recognise outstanding performances by waiting staff.
Susan Blond, a music-industry publicist, said that every intern in her office (including Lacey Tisch, a granddaughter of Laurence A. Tisch, who got her internship through connections) had found a way to get a ticket to one of Madonna's five New York performances without waiting hours on the phone when seats first went on sale to the public in May, and immediately sold out.
The NHS in Scotland has recorded one of its worst performances on waiting times in recent years.
Wales demonstrates improved performance on a number of indicators, but shows deteriorating performance on waiting times since 2010, with striking rises in waits for common procedures such as knee or hip operations.
Musical, dark and compelling – there's a whole story latent in his performance, just waiting to be told.
Third, Scotland's performance on waiting times, and other areas, matches that of England, having been significantly worse in the early 2000s.
It says that compliance with prompt payment targets had been a "considerable challenge to health bodies", and that performance against waiting time targets have declined considerably since March 2009.
