The NHS could save up to £2.2bn if trusts take steps to address wide variations in productivity and efficiency.
The Department of Health has published its Better care, better valueindicators, which show trust-by-trust performance against a range of measures.
Reducing unnecessary admissions could unlock £348m, and reducing wasted bed days a further £510m.
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Providers and commissioners are coming forward to work together more strategically to deliver better outcomes for their local populations, say Dr Gordon Macmillan and Dr Chirag Bakhai
An £84m urgent and emergency care transformation in Middlesbrough, system wide cancer reconfiguration in South Yorkshire, and a large elective care centre in Norfolk were among projects which missed out on recent government funding.
A whole system approach to finance in health and social care must be used to allow a realigning of spending, and ensure the public purse is being used to provide the right services, in the right place, at the right time. By Eleanor Roy
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