Abstract
It has been argued by Handy (1994) that the relentless pursuit of efficiency and economic growth has resulted in a state of social confusion:
‘in the pursuit of these goals we can be tempted to forget that it is we, individual men and women, who should be the measure of all things, not made to measure for something else. It is easy to lose ourselves in efficiency, to treat efficiency as an end in itself and not a means to other ends.’
(Handy, 1994, p. 1)
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Pidgeon, M. (1997). Provider Perspectives on Quality in Community Health Care. In: Mason, C. (eds) Achieving Quality in Community Health Care Nursing. Community Health Care Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13904-0_5
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