Report 04/10/2018Louella VaughanNigel EdwardsCandace ImisonBen Collins
Smaller hospitals are struggling with workforce shortages, spiralling costs and increasingly complex models of care for acutely ill patients. This major new report outlines a set of radical new approaches for running acute medical services in these institutions and suggests we should avoid assuming...
Press release 04/10/2018
Encouraging groups of clinicians to pool their capacity at the hospital ‘front door’ could help solve chronic workforce shortages and spiralling costs.
Summary 13/09/2018Candace ImisonLouella Vaughan
This profile of smaller hospitals in England finds trusts struggling to recruit and retain acute medical staff. Services across the country are configured in a wide variety of ways, with little evidence of an 'ideal' model for acute medical care emerging from our research.
Indicator update 11/08/2016Nora Cooke O'Dowd
We look at what the NHS Inpatient Survey reveals about patients' experiences.