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Hospitals, Jim, but not as we know them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1997

Norman J Vetter
Affiliation:
University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK

Abstract

Hospitals are disappearing fast and have been doing so for many years almost without our noticing. Figure 1 shows the number of hospital beds and the number of discharges and deaths from hospital in the UK over the past 35 years.

Type
Review Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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