Future Hospital Commission: The time for action

摘要

Our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenges of an ageing population, increasing hospital admissions, and a failure to provide coordinated, patient-centred care; added to a looming crisis in the medical workforce, and the need to find ￡20 billion efficiency savings by 2015. It is clear that radical steps need to be taken if we are to be able to provide high quality medical care.