Cautious note is timely as reference costs are being done on the cheap with little investment

John Appleby's short article ('Measuring efficiency', data briefing, 11 March) was interesting, but it concentrated too much on the apparent huge anomalies in cost to address some of the real issues. A few more points to consider...

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