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Public spending on healthcare has increased significantly over the past five years. One way to assess the benefits of such spending is to look at how well trusts can convert the increased resources into improved healthcare outcomes. This article reviews a number of suggested approaches to measuring performance in the UK’s NHS and provides an illustrative analysis of the efficiency of the so-called acute trusts
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