Reform Think Tank: Changing demand for hospital care

Summary

The nature of demand for hospital care is changing significantly. This is largely due to increasing numbers of:

• patients with multiple long-term conditions - referred to below as multimorbidity
• older people who are at highest risk of adverse outcomes such as falls, disability, admission to hospital, or the need for long-term care, due to an ageing population - referred to below as frailty. 

This survey from Reform Think Tank will help to understand how this shift in demand changes how care is delivered on the ground in hospitals, and how effectively hospitals have responded to this shift. 

Your answers will contribute to a paper series from Reform Think Tank – the cross-party, public services think tank.