Leasing and asset management of technology in the health sector

The health trusts are required to remain in financial balance.

At the same time, in today's health service, capital is a scarce resource. This imposes increasing requirements for making operations and management more efficient and in line with modern financial principles.

The paradox is that the health trusts are subject to stringent financial frameworks which prevent them from employing the normal financial instruments for implementing measures which offer future returns. The scarcity of capital and the framework conditions in combination mean that, in many circumstances, health trusts have extraordinarily high operating costs – despite financial analyses indicating that investment in better technology would offer a lower cost base.