Circulatory Disease in the NHS: Measuring Trends in Hospital Costs and Output
Following the publication of the Atkinson Review of the measurement of government outputs in the National Accounts, there has been great interest in measuring the productivity growth of the National Health Service. Such macro measures of productivity are important when deciding how much public money to devote to the NHS, and in holding the NHS to account. However, it is also important to gain an understanding of the productivity of individual programmes of care, so as to ensure that resources are allocated efficiently within the NHS. Hitherto, such information has not been available. This report is an exploratory study of the feasibility and usefulness of developing measures of growth in outputs, costs and productivity of a single programme of care within the NHS: hospital treatment of circulatory diseases.
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2006-12
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Authors: | Castelli, Adriana ; Smith, Peter C |
Institutions: | Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies |
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