share of the specialty hospital deploying this technology and on the competing hospitals in the region. Our analytical … equilibrium between specialty hospitals and community hospitals. Both hospital types will significantly benefit from delivering … increasing with the distance of the patient from the hospital. This result explains why patients located far from the specialty …

spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …