Citation
(2011), "Good health?", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 60 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2011.07960haa.009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Good health?
Article Type: News From: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Volume 60, Issue 8
Many NHS hospitals will struggle to deliver their productivity targets, essential to maintaining quality and avoiding significant cuts to services, according to a survey of NHS finance directors by the King’s Fund.
The majority of 29 finance directors from NHS providers questioned said that their trusts face productivity targets for 2011/12 of 6 per cent or more – well above the level required across the NHS as a whole to deliver the £20 billion in efficiency savings needed by 2015.
In total 27 said their trust has a productivity target of 4 per cent or more, with 13 of these having targets of 6 per cent or more – all of them from provider organisations.
Overall half the finance directors were uncertain of meeting their targets, including eight of the 13 with targets of 6 per cent or more.