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Exhibit 1211

What's measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public health care system

Exhibit 1211 ยท Journal article

What's measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public health care system

We examine the robustness of the regime of targets and terror to these assumptions using evidence from the English public health service on reported successes, problems of measurement, and gaming.

Examines the English NHS regime of targets backed by sanctions, using evidence on reported successes, measurement problems and gaming. Describes the regime as targets and terror.

Source
Gwyn Bevan and Christopher Hood, Public Administration 84(3): 517-538
Date
2006
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Abstract
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00600.x
Accessed
2026-11-10
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