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| Hospitals, Jim, but not as we know them | | Author(s) | Norman J Vetter |
| Journal title | Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 7, no 3, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 195-197 |
| Keywords | Hospital services ; Medical wards ; Domiciliary services ; Community care ; Costs [care] ; Technology. |
| Annotation | This article looks at some of the reasons for the falling numbers of hospital beds in the UK. The effect of the increase of very old people is usually assumed to be a pressure for keeping hospitals; however, older people are increasingly being treated at home or at general practitioner (GP) based units. Because hospitals have more fixed costs and are therefore less flexible than community care, the pressure of economic changes to reduce costs also results in a reduction of the numbers of hospital beds. Technological change - such as kits for home diagnosis, laser microsurgery and computer-controlled prostheses - is another reason, as is consumer preference for home care or locally-based care. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971204413 A |
| Classmark | LD: LD4: N: PA: QDC: Y9 |
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