Saving for the NHS
The role of the third sector in developing significantly better health care outputs for the same level of resource
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The NHS, alongside all other health care systems in developed countries, will soon run out of money. All of these health care systems have become used to increases in resources that have more than kept pace with the increased demand for health care caused by an aging population and increased public expectations.
This will now stop.
Of course some NHS resources can be saved by squeezing and cutting, but to ensure that there is a sustainable NHS into the future we will need to develop a new business model with a new economics.
Other industries and services have achieved this.
At the moment the NHS has an economic model which sees all value being created by medical personnel, their kit and their drugs. When the patient comes into contact with these health care staff (their kit and drugs) then value is added to the patient’s health care. That is why, if the NHS is to provide more value, it always needs to possess more medical personnel, more kit and more drugs. In this model the patient is simply a sponge on value.
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