Tag Archives: Affordability

Fair and Affordable Access to Medicines in the NHS (NHS England / UCL IIPP)

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Adalimumab is a medicine on which hospitals spend more than £400 million a year. The patent has now expired, allowing patients to be treated with a cheaper biosimilar, saving around £150 million per year (which can be re-directed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Medicines, Adalimumab, Added Benefit of New Drugs (Analysis), Affordability, Affordability (Facilitators of Innovation), Affordability and Access to Essential Medicines, Affordable Medicines, Alignment of Corporate Interests With the Public Interest, Alternative Health Innovation Model (Proposals), Andrew Davies: Director of Hospital Pharmacy at NHS Improvement, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), Barriers to Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Vested Interests, Better Procurement, BioCubaFarma, Biological Medicines and Biosimilars, Biosimilars for Adalimumab, Cancer Innovation Fund (CIF), Charging Prices the Market Will Bear, Collaboration and Transparency, Compulsory Licensing, Compulsory or Public Non-Commercial Use Licences, Decline of Drugs Research and Development Efficiency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), Delinkage, Delinkage of Incentives for Innovation From High Prices, Directed Innovation, Direction of Innovation for Public Value, Drug Patent Monopolies: Negation of Competition, Drug Patents, Drug Pricing Negotiations, Drug Pricing Strategies, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Effective Knowledge Sharing, Energiewende in Germany, European Public Health Alliance, Expensive Drugs, Finance and Budgeting: Affordability (Barriers to Innovation), Finance and Procurement, Global Justice Now, Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), Health Innovation, Health Innovation Better Managed to Deliver Public Value, Heidi Chow: Global Justice Now, High Medication Prices Placing Pressure on NHS Budgets and Causing Rationing, High Prices Failing to Reflect Social Value, Highly-Priced Medicines, Human Genome Project (HGP), I-MAK, Improving Access to Medicines, Incentivising Investment in Innovation, Inefficiencies in Innovation, Innogen, Innovation and Improvement, Innovation Direction, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Geared to Encouraging Innovation, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Geared to Public Value, Intellectual Property Rules Geared for Public Health, International Nonproprietary Names (INN), Just Treatment, Knowledge Ecology International, Knowledge Governance, Lack of Safeguards in Current Pharma R&D Model, Lack of Transparency and Public Accountability, Lack of Transparency and Stifled Collaboration, Learning from DARPA, Mariana Mazzucato: UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Me-Too Drugs, Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), Medicines Price Transparency, Mission-Driven Innovation, Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy, Mission-Oriented Thinking, Monopoly Pricing, Open Society Foundations, Opportunities for Volume-Based and Pooled Procurement, Out-of-Reach Drug Prices, Patent Monopolies Negating Competition, Patentability Criteria Consistent With TRIPS Agreement, Patents Blocking Learning Diffusion and Collaboration, People’s Prescription: Re-Imagining Health Innovation to Deliver Public Value, Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS), Pooled Procurement Mechanism, Pricing Legislation, Principles of Health Innovation Model Designed For Public Value, Procurement, Profit Maximisation Versus Public Value Maximisation, Public Investment in Biomedical Innovation, Public Purpose, Public Purpose and Public Value, Public Value, Public Value Maximisation, Reducing Spending on Expensive Drugs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Saoirse Fitzpatrick: STOPAIDS, Short-Termism and Financialisation, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Smart Procurement, Social Value, STOPAIDS, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), TRIPS Agreement, TRIPs-Plus Provisions, Upstream Investment in Research and Development Negotiated Into Better Downstream Public Benefit, US Biochemical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), US Department of Health: Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), Value Based Pricing, Value-Based Pricing (Imperfect Model), Value-Based Pricing: Corrupted Into Maximising Value Extraction (Versus Public Good), Variations in Procurement, Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) | Leave a comment

Innovation for Efficiency, Productivity and Affordability in Healthcare (ILC-UK / EY)

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A report from the International Longevity Centre covers seven examples of UK-based and international schemes involving innovation. These examples are: Memory First: an integrated dementia service run by a consortium of 162 GPs across 41 practices in Staffordshire. Urban … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Accelerating Innovation, Access to Care, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Adopters and Adoption of Innovation, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Ageing Population, Barriers to Innovation, Belgium, Benefits of Case Management, Care Coordination / Case Management Approaches For People With Dementia Living at Home, Case Management, Closing the NHS Funding Gap, EASYCare, EASYCare Project, Economic Sustainability, Effective Innovation for Affordable Healthcare, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Encouraging Innovation, Ernst & Young, EY, Health and Social Care Integration, Home Dialysis, ILC-UK: International Longevity Centre UK, Innovation, Innovation and Improvement, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Integrated Dementia Care, International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK), Manchester Royal Infirmary, Memory Assessment Services, Memory Clinics, Memory First, Memory First (Staffordshire), Memory Services, NHS Belongs to the People, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Personalised Case Management, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, Productivity, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Programme, Productivity in the NHS, Protocol 3 (P3), Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Research and Innovation, Rio de Janeiro, Science and Innovation, Service Redesign (Telehealth), Service Redesign for Productivity, Service Transformation, SOS 2020, Staffordshire, Supporting Economic Growth, Supporting Research and Innovation, Sustainability, Tackling Barriers to Innovation, Tackling Variation, Task Force on E-Health, Transformational Commissioning, Transformational Technologies, Transformative Technology, Transparency, Unwarranted Variations, Urban E-Health Pilot, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources | Leave a comment

Quality Improvement Metrics: a New System For Measuring Whole System Performance (IHI)

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Analysts at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the United States have developed an improved set of measures by which to assess the performance of health care organisations and health care systems. Their “Whole System Measures 2.0 (WSM … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Local Interest, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics | Tagged Access, Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Accountability, Accountability and Integration, Accountability in Health and Social Care, Accountable Care Organisations, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Accountable Care Organisations (in United States and England), Accountable Financial Stewardship, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Clinical Quality Dashboards, Community Wellbeing, Community Wellbeing and Health Equity, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Dashboards, Days to Third Next Available Appointment, Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates, Encouraging Healthy Behaviour, End-User Experience, Equity (Stratification of Whole System Measures), Experience of Care, Experience of Care Domain Measures, Financial Stewardship, Functional Health Outcomes Score, Governance and Accountability, Health Care Cost Per Capita, Health Care Costs, Health Care Workforce, Health Inequalities, Healthy Behaviour, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Lifestyles, Hospital Aquired Conditions, Hospital Days Per Decedent During Last Six Months of Life, Hospital Readmission Percentage, Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR), Hospital-Acquired Infections, IHI Innovation Series, IHI Triple Aim, IHI: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Improving Patient Experience, Improving Population Health, Incidence of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Lifestyle Intervention Programmes, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health and Social Care Economies, Local Health and Wellbeing, Local Health Economies, Measuring Whole System Performance, Monitoring Health and Health Care, Mortality Rates, Obesity, Optimal Lifestyle Metrics, Overweight, Patient Experience, Patient Experience Score, Patient Harm, Patient Satisfaction with Care Score, Per Capita Cost of Care Domain Measures, Population Health, Population Health and Prevention, Population Health Domain Measures, Population Health Perspective, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Preventable Adverse Events, Preventable Harm, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Approaches, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Metrics, RAND Delphi Procedure, Rate of Adverse Events, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reliability of Core Measures, Serious Reportable Events (SREs), Social Responsibility, Societal Footprints, Toyota Specification, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Unadjusted Raw Mortality Percentage, United States, Unmet Care Needs, Unmet Health Needs, Unmet Needs, Unmet Needs of Family Carers, Unmet Social Care Needs, USA, User Experience, Vital Signs Measure, Whole System Dashboards, Whole System Measures 2.0 (WSM 2.0), Whole System Measures 2.0 IHI White Paper, Whole System Measures 2.0: White Paper (2016), Whole System Measures IHI White Paper (2007), Whole System Measures: White Paper (2007), Whole-System Approaches, Workforce Wellbeing | Leave a comment

Crisis in Care Homes / Social Care Sustainability? (BBC News / ResPublica)

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Economic analysis of the financial sustainability of residential care home services in England suggests that care homes could – within five years – be underfunded by £1.1 billion per year. This raises worrying implications for future capacity relative to … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Barchester, BBC Health News, Bupa, Care Homes, Care UK, Commissioning and Funding, Economic Sustainability, Four Seasons, Four Seasons Health Care Homes, Future of Residential Care, HC-1, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Home Care, Lack of Alignment Between Care Funding Streams, Lack of Alignment in Organisation, LaingBuisson, Living Wage, Making Our Care and Health Systems Fit for An Ageing Population, National Living Wage, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, Older People Living in Care Homes, Provider Sustainability, Residential Care, Residential Care Costs, Residential Care Homes, Residential Care Homes: Cost Structure, Resolution Foundation, ResPublica, ResPublica Trust (ResPublica), Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Southern Cross, Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Tale of Two Systems (NHS and Social Care), Upward Spending Pressures | Leave a comment

NHS Model(s) of Care Essential for Ageing Population (NHS England / Guardian)

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, has written about the NHS needing a revised model of care to meet rising demands for treatment from an ageing population. The existing model of delivery and service, involving an … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Integration, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Economic Sustainability, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Enhanced Services from GPs, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, GP Surgeries, Gridlock (Under-Capacity) in A&E Departments / Hospitals, Guardian, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Reconfiguration, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Out of Hours Services, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Care Services, The Current NHS Model is Outdated, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Upward Spending Pressures, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures | Leave a comment

Government Pledges a Further Two Billion for the NHS (BBC News / NHS England)

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary There has been an early announcement that the Government is to make an extra £2 billion for the health service next year. The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday is expected to explain how the extra funding will be for … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2014), BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care and Support Alliance, Care Closer to Home, Care Funding, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Community Health Connectors, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Diagnostic Centres, Diagnostic Services, Diagnostic Waits, Dr Michael Dixon, Dr Michael Dixon: Chair of the NHS Alliance, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Everett McKinley Dirksen (Quotation: Apocryphal?), Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Frontline Services, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gaps, Funding of Care and Support, Funding of Continuing Care, Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, General Hospitals, George Osborne (Chancellor), Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Reform, Independent Age, Integration of Health and Social Care, Ipsos Mori, Local Government Information Unit, Mears (Home Care Provider), Minimum Staffing Levels, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Reform, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Staffing (Hospitals), Strategic Society Centre, Strong NHS Needs a Strong Economy (Taxation Pays For It), Sustainable Funding, The Guardian, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding | 1 Comment

More on Extra Funding Requirements for the NHS? (BBC News / King’s Fund)

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The King’s Fund has proposed that the NHS in England probably needs £2 billion more next year, given the extent of deteriorating performance on some targets and the rising numbers of NHS trust deficits. The King’s Fund briefing has … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2014), BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Better Care Fund (BCF), Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Fair Access to Care (FACS), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Select Committee, Health: Financing, House of Commons Health Committee, Integration of Health and Social Care, Minimum Staffing Levels, Monitor, Multimorbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, Nurse Staffing Levels, Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Staffing (Hospitals), Taxation, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Affordability

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Google Translate (100+ Languages)

Recommended Sites