Supplies and services: little fish and large pools.
Centralisation of stores and services does not always work smoothly in the NHS and, even when it does, can we be sure that the expected cost advantages will be reaped? Hazel Grayson, senior research officer at the Medical Architecture Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, discusses some of the questions raised in research carried out by the unit.
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