Commissioning Guidelines – A surgical approach to value-based commissioning – Right Care on HSJ

This Right Care project is establishing clear, consistent and credible value-based commissioning guidelines for a wide range of surgical procedures. It is the result of a collaborationwith the Royal College…

Wednesday May 15th, 2013

Ten priorities for commissioners

This paper, originally published in March 2011, has been updated to reflect changes in the NHS from 1st April

Thursday March 28th, 2013

Assessing the quality of NHS hospitals

This research is the first ever overall assessment of NHS hospital quality and contributes to the debate about how best to measure quality

Monday March 18th, 2013

Commissioning high-quality care for people with long-term conditions

This briefing warns that CCGs will need to prioritise collaborative discussion and service planning, and leave space for service review and decommissioning

Tuesday March 5th, 2013

Structures and processes for priority-setting by health-care funders: a national survey of primary care trusts in England

This research used a survey of local resource allocaters in the NHS in order to map and explore current priority-setting activity.

Thursday January 10th, 2013

Priority-setting and rationing in healthcare

This qualitative research study investigated local priority-setting activity across 5 PCTs, and recommended that priority-setting should be fully embedded in resource allocation

Tuesday December 4th, 2012

Patients’ experiences of integrated care

This report sets out a snapshot of patients’ and carers’ experience of cancer care and includes recommendations for future action to improve integration

Thursday November 22nd, 2012

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

Can health care rationing ever be rational?

This article advocates that if there is disagreement about the allocation of health care resources, a fair open priority-setting process must be used

Thursday August 16th, 2012

Innovation in patient safety and quality at the local level – reducing harm

This journal article outlines a model used in the US to reduce harm and mortality, and save money

Thursday July 19th, 2012

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