Over the last decade, real spending in the United Kingdom NHS doubled in real terms to meet government targets including moves to increase spending rates to other EU countries and increasing health demands both as a result of increasing population of the elderly and illness related to lifestyle....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of issues around the poor adoption of healthcare simulation models and reflect whether there has been a broad failure of academic healthcare simulation modellers to build models that reflect real healthcare problems as acknowledged by...