9 January 2012

Do we understand the long term cycles in healthcare demand?

Time to re-evaluate financial risk in GP commissioning by Rod Jones
British Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 18, Iss. 1, 09 Jan 2012, pp 39 - 48
  • “the combined and interactive effects of the wider environment leads to very high volatility in year to year costs and also generates a set of poorly-understood long-term cycles in healthcare demand leading to prolonged periods of above-average cost.”