title: Winter pressures. Frozen assets.
abstract: Tracking the expenditure of a health authority's winter pressures allocation showed that a fifth was unspent. Investments yielded only limited extra services. There was little evidence of improved assessment and admission processes. The late announcement of the money and its non-recurring nature inhibited a coherent approach to service development.
authors.affiliation: Welsh Institute for Social Care, Glamorgan University.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beddow
mesh_terms: D005375:Financial Audit; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010343:Patient Admission; D010351:Patient Discharge; D012621:Seasons; D013038:Specialization; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D014852:Wales; D014887:Weather