TY - JOUR T1 - Being there and doing it JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 727 LP - 727 VL - 55 IS - 518 AU - Neville Goodman Y1 - 2005/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/518/727.abstract N2 - First, something that needs no further comment. A government report has concluded that those areas of the NHS that were given targets have improved, but areas not given targets have not. Conclusion? We need more targets. The intellectual incisiveness of this impeccable logic leaves me unable to write any more on the subject.So I'll turn to training. Surgical senior registrars were sometimes in post for 10 years. This made them very experienced, especially when one in two and one in three rotas were the … ER -