Friday, May 22, 2015

Simon Stevens is taking a gamble with his hospital plans

NHS boss hopes hospital chains will achieve £22bn in efficiency savings, but it is difficult to see how

The announcement on Wednesday by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens of the development of hospital chains is a huge gamble.

The idea of hospital chains is to make smaller hospitals clinically and financially sustainable, by linking them with a major regional centre. It builds on last year’s review of different ways of running hospitals led by Salford Royal chief executive Sir David Dalton.

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