For starters, it seems appropriate to pick up the 5 challenges that hospitals are facing nowadays according to a previous Royal College of Physicians’ report:
1. Increased demand in an environment of reduced number of hospital beds
2. Case mixe’s gradual and persistent advance towards chronic diseases and geriatrics
3. Difficulties of coordination and continuity of services for admitted patients.
4. Services of uneven quality in the evenings and at weekends
5. Imminent crisis of professionals and training of new professionals
To face these challenges, according to the "Future Hospital Commission", the hospitals should consider reorganization based on the following principles:
