Jeremy Hurst & Sally Williams: Improving hospital efficiency

The pressure facing hospitals will be even greater as the NHS faces the challenge of making unprecedented savings up to 2015 and beyond. This slideshow outlines what is needed to achieve greater hospital efficiency and draws out the lessons for the NHS.

Independent health economist, Jeremy Hurst, and Sally Williams, health policy analyst and researcher, use this slideshow to summarise the key findings from their report: Can NHS hospitals do more with less? (January 2012).

The report was commissioned by the Nuffield Trust and forms part of: The quest for efficiency in the English NHS, our two-year programme of research that aims to provide further evidence of how commissioners and providers can maintain and improve care at a time of severe financial constraint.

The slides identify the key determinants of technical efficiency in hospitals, which include hospital management and processes in the context of the external policy environment, and examine the relationship between health gain and hospital expenditure.