Keeping patients out of hospital

doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7230.262

BMJ 2000;320:262-263 ( 29 January )

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Keeping patients out of hospital

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Secondary care consumes a large proportion of the healthcare budget and the need to spend wisely is ever pressing. The prevailingpolitical philosophy of the past few decades in Britain has meantthat efficiency and effectiveness have become part of NHS vocabulary.Doctors have probably been better at adopting new practices thanthey have been at dropping outdated methods, but in both areasthere is room for improvement. Moreover, government funding isunlikely to improve unless the profession can show not only itscommitment to best practice but also its ability constantly toexamine its procedures and implement improvements or abandonmentwhen necessary. Clinical governance should nourish this process,but if success is to be achieved it will come from leadership,drive, and initiative from within the profession. The move tokeep patients out of hospital is clearly part of the search forefficiency and effectiveness, but it is important . . . [Full text of this article]

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