Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7439.584-a

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Authors' reply

Chris Ham, director (chris.ham@doh.gsi.gov.uk),
Nick York, senior economic adviser,
Rob Shaw, economic adviser,
Steve Sutch, senior consultant

Strategy Unit, Department of Health, London SW1A 2NS
Economics and Operational Research Division, Department of Health, Leeds LS2 7UE
NHS Information Authority, Winchester SO22 5DH

EDITOR—We agree with Black that improved bed management is not expensive and with Badrinath that other evidence supports our argument that the NHS can learn from Kaiser. Like Evans, we were sceptical of the claims made by Feachem et al in their original paper,1 but as the evidence has changed we have been willing to change our minds.

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