Across Britain’s public sector, innovation that was previously unthinkable is happening
is readying for calamity. Boris Johnson has written to every household warning that “things will get worse before they get better.” The number of deaths from covid-19 continues to rise, with 2,357 recorded aswent to press. As the peak of the pandemic looms ever closer, ministers pray the National Health Service will cope. On April 1st, London’sCentre reopened as a 4,000-bed hospital, the first of four conference centres and a stadium being repurposed.
The need for speed means normal rules are being ripped up. Regulators have been sidelined; league tables and targets forgotten. Power has both been centralised and diffused . Outsourcers as well as government departments have got their skates on: according to Rupert Soames, chief executive of Serco, the company has cut the time it takes to hire a worker from a month to four to five days.
Then, on March 19th, Ian Burnett, the Lord Chief Justice, told judges that “we will be using technology...which even a month ago would have been unthinkable.” Some courts remain open for essential face-to-face hearings; jury trials will not take place remotely. But many other hearings are now using technology.
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