Today, September 15th, we are publishing, through the think tank Reform, a pamphlet about the necessity to convert the work of NHS hospitals into a much more sustainable set of business models. These changes will be difficult for both those inside the NHS and for those outside. However not facing up to the need for these changes will build into the NHS much greater inefficiencies, and outcomes that fail to reach the level of safety that we have come to expect.
The financial pressure facing the NHS is unprecedented. Over the course of this Parliament the health service must deliver £20 billion of efficiency savings. With 50 per cent of the health budget spent in hospitals, NHS hospital trusts are in the front line in the drive to achieve more for less.
