Longer Lives – highlights local variation in premature deaths

Public Health England website highlighting premature deaths across every local authority in England

Tuesday June 11th, 2013

Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve Population Health? Should They Try?

This JAMA article discusses what improving population health actually means

Tuesday April 16th, 2013

Child Health Profiles 2013 – a snapshot of child health for each local authority in England using key health indicators

These profiles allow you to compare the outcomes in your local population with others in order to identify and learn from better performing areas

Thursday March 21st, 2013

Document of the Week (4th Feb): Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years. Why think long term?

This King’s Fund report looks at alternative systems of assessing current and future spending, and suggests a need for an informed public debate about the choices to be made

Tuesday February 5th, 2013

A new approach to priority setting can improve patient care and save money

This report describes how NHS Sheffield used a new approach, called Star (‘socio-technical allocation of resources’), to re-allocate resources within its eating disorder services

Thursday October 18th, 2012

All Over the Map: Elective Procedure Rates in California Vary Widely

Cardiac patients in the Clearlake area are up to 10 times more likely to undergo elective invasive treatments than similar patients in the Sonoma area. This is one of dozens…

Friday September 16th, 2011

“We need bilingual clinicians for population medicine”

In this BMJ blog, Sir Muir Gray argues the need for “population medicine”..“The focus of medical services hitherto has been on the patients referred to a service, either self referred…

Monday April 18th, 2011

Third Annual Population Value Review

The new edition of the Annual Population Value Review is now live on Right Care. Produced by Peter Brambleby, Andrew Jackson and Iain Stewart, the third edition is prefaced by…

Thursday December 2nd, 2010

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