24 September 2015

NHS Mergers - the evidence

Foundation trust and NHS trust mergers 2010 to 2015
Kings Fund 24 September 2015
  • This report looks at 20 mergers between 2010 and mid-2015 and finds that significant sums of money are being spent on such mergers (£2 billion on just 12 mergers over this period), often based on faulty reasoning and a lack of evidence that mergers offer lasting solutions.