Nuffield Trust 4 October 2018
- 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 that closure is always the answer.
- The report focuses on hospitals serving 140,000 to 300,000 people – in particular those that are geographically isolated.
- (See related Findings from a survey of smaller acute hospitals)
