To ensure the health and care system remains financially sustainable, we need a better understanding of the changing configuration of health and care services and trends in the volume and mix of supply across the whole system. [...] However, to ensure the health and care system remains sustainable and capable of responding to these changing patterns of demand, we need a better grasp of the changing configuration of health and care services and trends in the volume and mix of supply across the whole system. [...] 4.2 Research questions • How can we conceptualise the changing configuration of health and care services in terms of volume and mix? • How can we measure changes in the configuration of health and care services over time and geographically? • How do these changes in the configuration of health and care services relate to inequality? For example, what have the direct and indirect effects of these c. [...] Stage 1: establishing the conceptual framework needed to examine the changing configuration of health and care services Objective A: to define concepts and metrics that are appropriate for considering the configuration of health and care services The supplier will be expected to use the existing literature on health and care services configurations (including centralisation) and inequalities to de. [...] Objective B: to establish the kinds of communities or places affected by the reconfiguration of health and care services One of the key challenges for the supplier is to consider and define ‘areas of interest’ in the context of this work.
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