the buildings they work in. These are combined to produce the output of the
health care sector, and note the use of the word outputs here, not outcomes.
Conceptually the outputs are episodes of care. For hospital inpatient services, a
measure of output is the number of admissions described by case-mix produced
in a given ’time. For community services, an appropriate measure may be
completed episodes of care.
Figure 1
Labour Material Capital
Production processes
Output (eg cars)