Just keep it simple, stupid

Everywhere you look, performance measures are sprouting as the control freaks in Whitehall village seek to oversee every aspect of NHS activity. The old Soviet Union tried to exert this degree of control before the collapse of communism: it failed.We should learn from the comrades to keep it simple.

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