But Chris Ham, a health-policy specialist at Birmingham University, thinks that the workforce could fall by 10% without damaging services as long as they are provided more effectively.Rationing and rationalisingIf fundamental improvements in efficiencies are to be made, however, hospitals will have to be rationalised.
"This reduction is expected to come from a variety of different sources and initiatives," the company said, "including a reduction in the number of employees and normal personnel attrition, a reduction in the use of outsourced professionals, reductions in facility costs, and various improvements in efficiencies".
The US dairy industry has realized tremendous improvements in efficiencies and milk production since the 1940s.
There's a risk that this new technology also faces, but the promise of radical improvements in efficiencies at costs that are low enough to attract buyers have investors once again putting money behind alternative solar chemistries.
LFR technology has been developed since the 1960s, and while large improvements in efficiencies have been made, there is still room for improvement.
While the drought's impacts have been felt across California, the study finds that, in general, urban regions — benefiting from improvements in efficiencies, conservation, water management practices and other by-products of previous droughts — stand out as a "bright spot".
