Acute care

Hospital reconfigurations ‘negatively impacting’ patients, warn government advisers

By 2024-09-03T14:01:00

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Clinical service reconfigurations are mostly driven by the “poor condition of [the] NHS estate” and a lack of staff rather than a desire to “improve clinical outcomes”, advisers to the Department of Health and Social Care have said.

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