Variation in Accident and Emergency Admissions…
One of the greatest challenges facing the NHS is the inexorable rise in emergency admissions. The largest proportion of emergency admissions is from self referrals via A&E. This is the…
Friday February 25th, 2011
Spend and Outcome Tool (SPOT) updated
The Association of Public Health Observatories has updated SPOT (the Spend and Outcome Tool). SPOT is one of the key health investment tools which enables commissioners to examine the relationship…
Friday February 25th, 2011
Using shared decision making to tackle variation – Pulse
“Involving patients more closely in decisions about their treatment is a key strategy for GP commissioning consortia wanting to reduce unwarranted variations in healthcare” writes Alisdair Stirling in this article…
Monday February 21st, 2011
“Low priority” treatments in the news again…
A slightly mishievious article in the HSJ has used a Price Waterhouse Cooper econometric model to predict the impact on Trusts of primary care trust plans to restrict low priority…
Friday February 18th, 2011
Child Obesity E-atlas now available from National Obesity Observatory
The child e-atlases enable users to view and compare data at PCT and LA level, for both single and dual maps. Prevalence data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)…
Friday February 18th, 2011
Right Care Public Health Colloquia
The NHS Alliance, QIPP Right Care Team, and NHS Solutions for Public Health have published the findings from the scond national summit exploring the relationship between GP consortia and public health, and…
Friday February 18th, 2011
Variation in elective surgical procedures across Wales
Our colleagues in NHS Wales have produced a report on variations in elective proceures. “The analyses focus on procedure groups which, in some circumstances, have been deemed of relatively low…
Wednesday February 16th, 2011
High-Value, Cost-Conscious Health Care: Concepts for Clinicians to Evaluate the Benefits, Harms, and Costs of Medical Interventions
“Whether an intervention provides high value depends on assessing whether its health benefits justify its costs. High-cost interventions may provide good value because they are highly beneficial; conversely, low-cost interventions…
Monday February 14th, 2011
We now have a shiny new videos page…
A new section on the Right Care website includes a set of videos from some luminaries in the world of variation in healthcare and Shared Decision Making. “Jack” Wennberg visited…
Monday February 7th, 2011
Five steps to assessing population need – CPD for Commissioning
Dr Shane Gordon writes in this article in PULSE, “A good understanding of the challenges facing your health economy is vital to help you plan where best to target your…
Friday February 4th, 2011
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