The NHS Productivity Challenge: Experience From The Front Line

On May 1, 2014, the Kings Fund released a report on the British National Health Service's (NHS') productivity challenge. The report describes: local NHS providers’ understanding of the national financial environment; their views about how the current ‘efficiency drive’ differs from previous initiatives; how providers set their productivity and cost improvement targets; how hospitals have managed to make ends meet; and how they view the next few years of continued financial restraint . . .