Overcoming the challenge of commissioning diagnostic services

This guide presents top tips for commissioners to meet common challenges in the delivery of diagnostic services

Thursday April 4th, 2013

‘Adopting six key principles will help the delivery of effective integrated out-of-hospital care’, says NHS Confederation report

This report highlights key evidence for delivering integrated care, and draws on learning from partners across health and social care

Monday January 7th, 2013

Document of the Week (5th Nov): All Together Now. Competitive integration in the NHS

This Policy Exchange report discusses competitive integration and makes recommendations on how to achieve successful integration in the NHS.

Tuesday November 6th, 2012

Different approaches to controlling rising health care costs in the United States

Two articles in NEJM discuss US health care spending, the cost curve and market-based incentives

Thursday October 4th, 2012

Competition and integration in the NHS

This report summarises a Nuffield Trust seminar on how competition and integration can work together to improve quality and efficiency in the NHS.

Tuesday March 20th, 2012

Document of the Week (13th Feb): Long term conditions and mental health – the cost of co-morbidities

Clinical commissioning groups must prioritise integrating mental and physical health care more closely to improve quality and productivity, says report

Tuesday February 14th, 2012

Document of the Week (2nd Jan 2012): the search for low-cost integrated healthcare

This report outlines a model for providing integrated healthcare in Spain through public-private partnership, and how it might be adapted for use in the NHS.

Tuesday January 3rd, 2012

Document of the week (31st October): Principles for integrated care

This National Voices report states that the lack of joined-up care is a big frustration for patients, and outlines 12 principles for better integrated care

Tuesday November 1st, 2011

Systematic review finds “insufficient evidence to recommend the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of primary healthcare”

The use of financial incentives to directly reward primary healthcare performance and quality, is increasing in a number of countries. A systematic review prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration and published…

Tuesday September 20th, 2011

The quest for efficiency in the NHS

This presentation by Professor Alan Garber (Professor of Medicine at Stanford University) examines what he considers to be the three essential components required to achieve efficiency in the NHS: competition, integration…

Thursday August 25th, 2011

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