Cutting costs without losing blood.
The holy grail for the NHS is how to minimise costs without endangering service quality, particularly to patients. This mandate to cut-expressed as 'save x%' is passed down to the various departments within an organisation where the great horse trade begins. To protect patient-facing services this o...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Healthcare Management Vol. 19; no. 7; pp. 318 - 324 |
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| Formato: | case study Journal Article |
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Mark Allen Holdings Limited
Jul2013
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