Salzburg statement on shared decision making published in the BMJ

“In December 2010, 58 people from 18 countries attended a Salzburg Global Seminar to consider the role patients can and should play in healthcare decisions. Those listed below have agreed…

Sunday March 27th, 2011

Neurology ‘lottery’ as costs vary 10-fold

Alisdair Stirling, writing in Pulse: “GP commissioning consortia will inherit an ‘idiosyncratic’ postcode lottery for neurology services from PCTs, with tariffs varying almost tenfold across England, new figures reveal. The…

Sunday March 27th, 2011

BMJ Editorial on the NHS Atlas of Variation

An editorial from Nick Mays in the same edition of the BMJ discusses  the NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare (doi:10.1136/bmj.d1849).Published late last year by the Department of Health, this…

Sunday March 27th, 2011

Can you answer these questions on variation in practice?

Who was the first person to document variations in clinical practice, and what did he find?  How did Jack Wennberg tackle the same problem in Vermont 40 years later? What…

Sunday March 27th, 2011

Atlas 2.0 anyone?

Right Care published the NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare in November 2010. For the first time, the Atlas brought together existing and available NHS data to illustrate the widespread…

Tuesday March 8th, 2011

Shared Decision Making with Annette O’Conner, Glyn Elwyn and Shannon Brownlea…

We’ve just added a new video to our presentations in which Dr. Steve Laitner, QIPP Right Care Lead for Shared Decision Making, talks to Annette O’Conner, Glyn Elwyn and Shannon…

Wednesday March 2nd, 2011

“Hitting QOF targets reduces hospital costs”

The report, called Do quality improvements in primary care reduce secondary care costs?, suggests that attainment of higher QOF scores in one clinical area could reduce hospital costs in other…

Wednesday March 2nd, 2011

Potential new QOF indicators unveiled

“New indicators for asthma, cardiovascular disease, obesity and smoking could be added to the 2012/13 Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), as NICE opens its consultation on potential indicators. Introduced in…

Wednesday March 2nd, 2011

Muir Gray: Bye Bye Quality

Muir Gray, Joint National Lead for Right Care writes in the BMJ Group Blog: “[The NHS] faces a paradigm shift from quality to value — Bye Bye Quality, Hello Value. The…

Wednesday March 2nd, 2011

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