Seasonal variation in end-of-life health and social care work load

What is it about?

The workload in health and social care is influenced by end-of-life. Deaths can be used as a proxy for the end-of-life related workload. This study looks at the seasonal profile of deaths and how this may affect work load. Work load implies staff scheduling and costs.

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Why is it important?

Plans are usually derived using broad annual averages and these can be highly misleading and cause gross underestimation of costs.

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