Document of the Week (10th Dec): A decade of austerity?

This report highlights the funding challenges facing the NHS and social care system in England over the next decade

Tuesday December 11th, 2012

How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report

This report combines publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from a panel of finance directors on the key issues their organisations are facing

Thursday October 4th, 2012

Document of the Week (20th Aug): Lean and queuing integration for the transformation of health care processes: A lean health care model

This paper aims to report a lean health care transformation model that integrates queuing theory and lean methodology to improve the dynamic performance of the health care system

Tuesday August 21st, 2012

Commissioning board plans new improvement body to drive efficiency

We used to call this “Do Once and Share”

Wednesday July 18th, 2012

Document of the Week (4th June): How is the NHS performing?

This Kings Fund quarterly monitoring report looks back at how the NHS performed during the first year of the spending squeeze

Thursday June 7th, 2012

Document of the Week (21st May): A case study of an Integrating Pathway Hub (IPH) “Prime Contractor”

This case study identifies those elements that made a “prime contractor” approach work in Oldham, and has lessons for others

Tuesday May 22nd, 2012

Variation in data definitions can affect patient choice and NHS finances

This briefing highlights the variation in the classification of routine short-stay treatments and how this can affect the commissioning of care

Tuesday May 1st, 2012

Document of the Week (2nd April): Productivity of the NHS

This research demonstrates that NHS productivity has grown constantly, but varies widely across England

Tuesday April 3rd, 2012

Document of the Week (5th March): Healthy Competition

This report shows that a radical change in healthcare delivery can lead to improved quality and productivity

Tuesday March 6th, 2012

Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?

This paper by the Centre for Economic Performance tests the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals.

Thursday February 23rd, 2012

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