NOW That's what I call a target!

The previous UK government was much maligned (and rightly so) for trying to improve the NHS by setting endless 'performance targets', some of which contradicted each other and most of which just created a culture of box ticking and/or had unintended consequences.

Some of them were superbly vague as well, of course. Unlike in South Africa:

The KwaZulu-Natal government aims to circumcise 47 055 newborn boys and 186 703 youths during the 2010/11 financial year.

As an aside, a baby's skin cells will multiply so many times that "one foreskin contains enough... material to grow 250,000 square feet of skin [for skin grafts etc]" allegedly, so assuming that the state appointed circumcisors do their job properly - and don't miss and get the sack - those 47,055 foreskins could be grown to nearly four* square miles. And even more than that if you rubbed it a bit, presumably.

* Should have read "four thousand", see next post.