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

Hospitals could shed thousands of beds as a result of a massive expansion of care delivered in and near people’s homes, the thinktank says. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

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.