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Productivity in UK healthcare during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
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Authors
External Authors
Kaya Dreesbeimdiek
Annabel Manley
Related Themes
Productivity, Trade, and Regional EconomiesTags
JEL Code
H51, I10, E01
Journal
National Institute Economic Review, No. 258, Vol. Autumn, Pages: 90-116
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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The output of healthcare fell sharply in the UK in mid-2020, despite the immense pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to a bigger decline in UK GDP than many similar economies. This was partly because of the method used to measure health output, but partly because there was little spare capacity in the NHS, so non-Covid treatments fell more sharply than elsewhere.
We explain the measurement methods applied to public services that produced the published decline, in the context of the inherent difficulties of defining and measuring health output and productivity; and describe the changes in practice that had to take place in NHS hospitals.
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