The hospital of the future Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England Since the 1980s

摘要

The secretary of state is due to announce the results of aninquiry into beds in England. This review seems to have been inresponse to a perception that hospitals were experiencing increaseddifficulty in coping with emergency pressures and that the reductionin beds had gone too far-a fact apparently supported by a pla-teauing in the downward trend in the number of beds. The hospitalsector, especially in the NHS, has long Been a focus from all sidesfor rhetoric and emotive Political appeals.