Estate management: when reality stifles ambition.
Health service buildings and lands make up an estate which must be managed in such a way that the future does not suffer from the neglect of the present. Looking to the NHS as it is likely to be in the 1980s, Gordon Brooke, regional works officer, Mersey RHA, suggests an end to a system in which capital is a 'free good' and districts under financial pressure have little incentive to preserve the value of their estates.
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