“…A single proposal for an improvement might have to be considered by nine different committees, most of which would have direct access to the Minister. Bureaucracy is bad when the people allow it to assume powers they themselves should hold. …”

“…The criticism that this would mean an increase of bureaucracy and red tape is not justified. It is the division of responsibility for the Social Services between the Government and the local authorities and between various Government departments that gives scope for delays, red tape, and the shifting of responsibility. …”

“…To this end it is necessary that over-centralisation and bureaucracy should be avoided, that local and popular control should be ensured, regard being paid to local circumstances, and that the medical profession should have direct representation on the authorities for the promotion of public health, and full opportunity for a collective expression of their views. …”

“…Clearly, if the Socialist State is to avoid the extremes of Syndicalism and Bureaucracy in industrial life, a compromise between "pure" democracy and managerial autocracy must be found. …”

“…Frustration and political apathy are becoming rampant, unemployment "pockets" are forming again and individual ardour and enterprise are being choked by an irresponsible and indifferent bureaucracy. Private enterprise is certainly paralysed, but there is little else to take its place. …”

“…That attack is: (1) an attempt to reduce the proposal for a national health service to an extension of the "panel"; (2) an attempt to destroy the whole structure of local government; (3) an attempt to preserve the privileges of the high-income specialists by giving the voluntary hospitals a position of predominance in all parts of the health service; (4) an attempt to set up a medical bureaucracy which would introduce delay at every point, making progress even in the provision of hospitals and specialists virtually impossible; (5) the relegation of Health Centres to a long period of small-scale experiments which the B.M.A. would be in a position to sabotage. …”

“…The great Tory slogan against Socialism is that it means a swollen bureaucracy, with remote control of industrial and private life by Whitehall. …”

“…They fear political influence in medical matters. They fear bureaucracy and red tape. They fear subservience of the clinical to the administrative. …”