The NHS productivity puzzle

The NHS productivity puzzle: Why has hospital activity not increased in line with funding and staffing? The NHS crisis will only be solved with capital investment, increasing management capacity and staff retention – not just more doctors and nurses.

Politicians need to seriously engage with the real problems facing the NHS – or the decline in hospital performance levels will become extremely difficult to reverse.

 

This report – written jointly by the Institute for Government and Public First, and funded by the Health Foundation – assesses why NHS hospitals are failing to deliver higher activity despite higher spending on the service and higher levels of staffing over the last couple of years.