The Biggest Wins in the NHS are Cheap
A community pilot reduced musculoskeletal waiting lists by 20%, and its reward was a national budget smaller than the pilot itself. The announcement, stripped of its press-release gloss, identifies an initiative that reduced community musculoskeletal waiting lists by a fifth that is now going national. The reward for that success is a grand total of £3.225m, which I had to read twice as I was expecting more zeros [1]. The pilot that proved the model in the first place cost £3.5m [2], so the reward it has earned, namely the budget to do exactly the same across every health system in England…
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