Blockage in the system

Article Abstract:

It is common in the UK for elderly people with continuing care needs to take up badly needed hospital beds even though they no longer require acute treatment. At the same time, nursing homes are running at increasingly low occupancy rates. It is now time to consider how the many empty nursing home beds can be used for continuing care, respite care and rehabilitation. This will only happen if competition between health authorities can be eliminated through unified budgets that cut through the bureaucracy resulting from community care.

Care and treatment, Aged, Elderly

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Paying the price of early discharge

Article Abstract:

The UK National Health Service is treating more people in the 1990s than it did in the 1980s. However, it is discharging people sooner after surgery to achieve this improved efficiency. These shorter hospital stays affect old people in particular, as they are more prone to postoperative problems and they take longer to recover from illnesses. Community nursing services cater for only a small proportion of discharged patients, so elderly people needing postoperative nursing care may have to pay for it themselves.

Finance, Hospitals, Aged patients, Elderly patients, Hospital admission and discharge

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'It is time that the NHS had independent status'

Article Abstract:

The NHS has overspent 1% less than its budget and has to reduce management costs by 15% before the end of March 2007 or payback double that can possibly affect its future viability. An independent status to NHS would protect and help the organization to function better.

United Kingdom, Management dynamics, Methods, Company business management, Cost control, Cost reduction

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