Hospitals told to improve productivity

Hospitals in England must do much better at improving productivity if patient care is not going to suffer in the coming years, experts say.

The NHS has been told to make £20bn of savings by 2015 - a saving of about 4% a year.

The report by the Nuffield Trust think tank highlighted a host of areas where productivity gains could be made.

These included cutting lengths of stay, doing more day case surgery and improving the way goods are bought.

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