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Are you saying, then, that all the increase in demand is due to inefficiencies in the system?
ReplyDeleteIf you eliminated failure demand wouldn't that make the NHS more productive - meaning that it delivered the same for less cost?
Therefore, aren't you saying that the NHS has a productivity problem?
I'm saying the NHS has an effectiveness problem. If the system was more effective at solving peoples problems then, yes, the cost of running the system would reduce. In such a system under conventional productivity metrics staff may appear to be less productive if they see the same amount of people but over fewer transactions. So no, the NHS does not have a productivity problem.
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