RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The future of hospitals: a consultancy viewpoint
JF Future Hospital Journal
JO Future Hosp J
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 16
OP 22
DO 10.7861/futurehosp.14.007
VO 1
IS 1
A1 Penelope J Dash
YR 2014
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/1/1/16.abstract
AB The NHS, like other healthcare systems, is facing challenges arising from shifts in patient needs, new technologies and the need to control costs. To address these challenges, hospitals will need to innovate in their models for service delivery; standardisation and process management, co-production of care, skill-mix changes, more efficient use of assets, and rapid adoption of IT will all be key. To deliver these changes, all hospitals will need to learn from the practices of the current best performers and new financial and operational models, together with different approaches to workforce planning, will be necessary.