Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Prof Halligan said the cultures of "target setting and corner cutting" were set higher up in the health service.
Instead, they incentivize state governments to cut corners even where corner-cutting is against the interests of the greater good.
"It was a result of this reduced central oversight, giving contractors more responsibility for supervising themselves, and that's an invitation of corner-cutting and complacency to set in, " he said.
Hamilton took the checkered flag ahead of Massa and Nick Heidfeld, only to be demoted to third when stewards punished his corner-cutting during his battle with Raikkonen by adding 25 seconds to his time.
Watford equalised when Mingoia, one of seven academy products in the home line-up, picked up the ball by the corner flag before cutting inside to smash a shot into the top corner.
The stewards based their decision on a belief that Hamilton had not fully ceded any advantage he gained from cutting the corner when he overtook Raikkonen at the subsequent corner.
But at time of the disaster the skipper had plotted a shorter than normal route, in effect cutting a corner, and it was the ship's cook who was on watch in the bridge.
What normally happens in these situations is that the driver who benefits from cutting the corner subsequently allows the guy he passed to overtake him, although there is usually some discussion with race control first.
"I have no intention of cutting a single corner in getting to the finish line, " Mr Cohl said in a statement.
But Sinclair broke the deadlock six minutes from time, cutting inside and firing into the bottom corner.
Novikovas replaced Templeton and added his name to the score-sheet 12 minutes from the end after cutting in from the left and finding the top corner with a delightful shot.
Torres opened the scoring with a spectacular strike in only the third minute, cutting inside Michael Turner and curling a shot into the top corner.
McCann, who limped out midway through the opening half, headed over from a corner while Martin Paterson went extremely close to a second goal with a curling 20-yard strike after cutting in from the right flank.
But Larsson - who was previously at Arsenal - had the last word, cutting inside from the left and smashing a spectacular 25-yard shot into the top-right corner to end a breathless duel and seal Birmingham's first away league win since August.
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