Hospitals must get smaller to stop NHS ‘permacrisis’, thinktank urges

Re:State report says role hospitals play needs ‘fundamental reinvention’ to deliver better care for patients

Hospitals need to become smaller, with fewer beds, to help save the NHS from its “permacrisis”, a thinktank has said.

The role hospitals play needs to undergo “a fundamental reinvention” to help them escape the overcrowding that has become widespread over the last decade, according to the thinktank Re:State.