Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2015/16 update

This paper provides an update on the productivity growth of the NHS in England over 2014/15 to 2015/16. It finds that there has been a significant growth in NHS activity over this period, accompanied by a growth in staff. Whilst the rate of productivity in this period has also grown the report finds that from 2014/15 onwards, productivity growth has failed to outpace that of the economy.
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