Yes / The NHS will need to make real term cost savings whilst maintaining and, where possible, enhancing the quality of essential services. The require-ment for efficiency savings to enable reinvestment in quality is estimated to be up to £21.1 billion by 2014 (Department of Health, 2010; Appleby, 2009.). This requires the NHS to increase productivity by 6 percent per annum (Appleby, 2010) while the Office of National Statistics estimates that productivity1 actually fell by approximately 0.3 percent per annum over the period 1995-2008 (ONS, 2010). Productivity is highly variable within the NHS and even within trusts (NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, 2004). Given these pressures, the productivity of healthcare organiza-tions is an incredibly salient topic; lean management is a particular pertinent and topical issue.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/6622 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | McIntosh, Bryan, Schmall, S.B. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | NewsLetter, Published version |
| Rights | © 2010 The Authors. Reproduced by permission from the copyright holder. |
| Relation | http://www.richmond.ac.uk/ |
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