Health economist Professor Alan Maynard turns his attention to the beautiful world of NHS management jargon
The ways in which NHS staff communicate with each other and the public are a wonder to behold! There is redundant use of adjectives to emphasise perfectly adequate nouns … and then there are phrases which are mis-speaking, misleading or just vacuous.
The latter are charitably collectively known as ‘jargon’. Less charitably, they are known as ‘bollocks’.