Why NHS waste isn’t only about red tape
Hospitals are increasingly the wrong vehicle for delivering modern healthcare. Today, more than 90 per cent of patient contacts with the NHS occur outside hospital, but 60 per cent of the NHS budget is spent in hospitals. That’s a big problem because, as the Reform report puts it: “The key challenge of a modern healthcare system is
to improve the quality of life for people with long-term conditions, not the 20th-century challenge of providing short episodes of hospital based treatment to reduce mortality rates from major diseases.”