Two points here: Firstly, the fun we all have chasing mobile phone masts: calls from mobile phones initially flag up with a location "in the vicinity" of the phone mast. Two minutes down the road we find we're actually heading to the wrong side of town. Just one of the many perverse outcomes of "improving" the service. Secondly. regarding your comment concerning Peter Bradley being one of the main instigators of this "f**k-up". I have been in conversation with someone else very closely involved with the Bradley report. I am assured (and I have no reason to doubt my source) that the government had already decided that "a target" was to be the main corner stone of the report even before Bradley started his review. If true, then his failing is that he didn't have the balls to walk away from the review but acquiesced to Nu-Labour's target driven culture. (I wonder when we can expect to see him rewarded with a lucrative QUANGO appointment or another honour for "Services to the Health Sector)