Document of the Week (May 20th): Understanding integrated care: a comprehensive conceptual framework…….

This paper from the Netherlands tries to gain a better understanding of the concept of integrated care from a primary care perspective.

Tuesday May 21st, 2013

Document of the Week (13th May): The Power of Video Recording. Taking Quality to the Next Level

This JAMA article discusses whether the video recording of medical procedures can improve quality of care.

Monday May 13th, 2013

Document of the Week (29th April): Why the Ethics of Parsimonious Medicine Is Not the Ethics of Rationing

This JAMA article discusses the difference between rationing and parsimonious medicine

Monday April 29th, 2013

Document of the Week (22nd April): NHS in numbers

This resource provides interactive charts which illustrate available data on the performance and funding of the NHS in England in a clear and simple format

Tuesday April 23rd, 2013

Document of the Week (15th April): Doctor Know. A Knowledge Commons in Health

This report outlines an open system of knowledge with researchers, practicing clinicians, patients, their families and communities all involved in capturing, refining and utilising a common body of knowledge in real time.

Tuesday April 16th, 2013

Document of the Week (8th April): The new NHS

The King’s Fund examines the changes in the NHS that came into force on 1st April 2013

Tuesday April 9th, 2013

Document of the Week (25th March): NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for People with Liver Disease

The new Right Care Liver Disease Atlas is now available to download or view

Tuesday March 26th, 2013

Document of the Week (18th March): Tough times, tough choices. Being open and honest about NHS finance

This report identifies 4 tough choices for the NHS: do nothing; spend more; do more for less; and do things differently

Thursday March 21st, 2013

Document of the Week (4th March): Reducing ineffective practice: challenges in identifying low-value health care using Cochrane systematic reviews

The objective of this research was to use Cochrane Reviews to identify low value practices to support local disinvestment decisions.

Tuesday March 5th, 2013

Document of the Week (25th Feb): The association between health care quality and cost – a systematic review.

This review found that evidence of the direction of association between cost and quality in health care is inconsistent

Tuesday February 26th, 2013

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