Demand Management

Demand Management

Waitemata DHB and the National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI

Managing the provision of hospital services by manipulating demand: reducing the inflow of patients to hospital so that the demand for specialist services reaches a stable relationship with the available supply of specialist care.

This involves implementing models of care that will shift care along the continuum from hospital specialist care towards primary care and home/self-care.

 

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