11. Health Sciences, Hospitals & Medical Schools

11.1 How do hospital budgets compare to main campus budgets? Some of the health sciences operate on a completely different financial basis to the rest of campus because of their reliance on clinical revenues. Nowhere is this truer than in medical schools, although it can also be a factor across nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, public health and veterinary medicine. We’ll get to medical school funding in the next section, but first, let’s get a feel for the basic numbers. In earlier chapters I wa..