BMJ. 1995 Apr 22;310(6986):1045-50.
In the absence of any systematic evaluation of the changes it has made to the NHS, the government cites three "indicators of success." These are record numbers of patients treated, shorter waiting times for hospital treatment, and more children being immunised against the main childhood diseases. Closer inspection of the statistics reveals that they do not support the conclusions inferred from them and that they are misleading measures of the impact of the changes made to the NHS.
在没有对其对国民医疗服务体系（NHS）所做的改变进行任何系统评估的情况下，政府列举了三个“成功指标”。这些指标是接受治疗的患者数量创纪录、医院治疗的等待时间缩短，以及更多儿童接种了主要的儿童疾病疫苗。对这些统计数据的仔细审查表明，它们并不支持从中推断出的结论，而且它们是对国民医疗服务体系所做改变的影响的误导性衡量标准。
