Hospital Productivity Drops 11 Percent Since Lockdown: NHS

Published on May 17, 2024

Productivity in hospitals “is still lower than it was pre-pandemic” with productivity in acute care 11 percent lower than before the lockdown, NHS England has said. The health service noted in its report published on Thursday that before COVID-19, the NHS “typically delivered productivity growth at a faster pace than the rest of the public sector and the wider economy,” but that in line with health systems around the world, the effects of the pandemic “caused significant and long-lasting disruption to NHS services, and consequently productivity.” The health service conducted analysis of productivity in the acute hospital care sector, which relates to short–term treatment for patients with any kind of illness or injury, and found that productivity last year was “around 11 percent lower than before the pandemic.”...

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