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Innovation versus Bureauracy (Yes Minister and the patient-less hospital)
Sitting there, the phone resting in the nook of my shoulder as the optimistic soundtrack of globalisation lolled along, I recalled that quintessential scene from the brilliant BBC series, Yes Minister, where the Right Honorable James Hacker MP, Minister for Administrative Affairs, is informed by his Private Secretary, Bernard, of a brand new hospital with 500 non-medical staff and no patients. A bureaucrat's idea of perfection.
