title: Targets culture wastes energy on wrong things.
abstract: Healthcare targets have been in the news a lot - and not in ways that offer comfortable reading. Missed emergency department waiting-time targets and patients waiting longer for treatments have made headlines.
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fyffe
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom