title: 'The health service is wasting precious time fiddling figures to hit performance targets'.
authors.affiliation: Community Services, Lancashire County Council.
authors.forename: Blair
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McPherson
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom