{
  "abstract": "Recently, it was National Productivity Week.1 NHS productivity has dominated public discourse in recent years—argued over by politicians, contested in think tanks and scrutinised in the press. Yet beyond the policy debate, the productivity drive shapes the daily work of thousands of NHS staff: the nurse covering two wards because a colleague's post lies vacant; the physiotherapist extending their shift to clear an inherited backlog; the community team redesigning care to see more patients in the same hours with fewer support staff.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Bennett House, Horizons, Stoke on Trent, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Laura Jane Yearsley"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Richard Wylde"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Barbara Cramond"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Jennifer Carroll"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Horizons, Stoke on Trent, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Helen Bevan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Karen Hampson"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Productivity starts with people",
  "uid": "2b970bf3-8539-5450-aa06-d92635ab8d29"
}