ABSTRACT
A framework for a hospital does not describe the optimal way to control hospital activities but instead describes a logical way of coordinating hospital activities within the perspective of the current hospital organisation. It is about what to do, and not about how to do it. Therefore, frameworks are not meant to be implemented as such.They rather serve as a reference background for the development of hospital production control systems, to show the weak spots where improvement is necessary, and to position contributions from logistic theories to issues of planning in the wider context of hospital planning.
