Model measuring demand for healthcare services should inform planning decisions, report finds

The ESRI said housing developments with a mix of half owners and half renters tend to have higher levels of acute public hospital ED and inpatient demand.

A new model for assessing the demand for healthcare services from new housing developments should inform planning decisions going forward, according to a new report. 

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said its model is important as the tenure mixes of a new housing development “plays a large role in determining the level of healthcare provision required in the local area in which the development is being constructed”.