title: Management costs. Cut and run.
abstract: Government claims that the NHS will have saved 1 bn Pounds on management costs by the end of this financial year are exaggerated. Published figures on savings since 1997-98 vary considerably. The question of what level of management costs the NHS should be expected to bear to run efficiently needs to be addressed.
authors.affiliation: King's Fund.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Appleby
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000191:economics; D017046:Cost Savings; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom