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Tag Archives: Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare
More on NHS Funding and Expenditure: Questions of Balance Regarding Income Versus Outgoings (BBC News / King’s Fund / Health Foundation / BMJ)
Summary NHS England hopes to save between £100 – £400 million of spending annually, by no longer funding / prescribing products and services identified by NHS Clinical Commissioners as having little or no clinical value. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountability and Integration, Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Anita Charlesworth: Director of Research and Economics at the Health Foundation, Anita Charlesworth: Health Foundation, Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare, BBC Health News, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Commissioning for Value, Consultant Delivered Care, Consultant Input, Consultant Productivity, Consultant Productivity n Acute NHS Hospitals, Dr Clare Gerada, Dr Peter Carter OBE, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Forty Treatments With Little or No Benefit For Patients (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges), Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, Funding Reform, Future Funding Models, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Clare Gerada, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Katherine Murphy, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Peter Carter, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Sir David Nicholson, Health: Financing, Hypothecated Tax for Health and Social Care, Hypothecated Taxes, Hypothecation, Independent Providers, Independent Sector, Integration of Health and Social Care, International Comparisons, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Low Value Prescription Items, Low-Value Care, Mythology of the Times, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances and Consultant Productivity, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding and Rationing, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS Always Needs More Money, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS Been Given the Extra Funding it Demanded of Politicians, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS is Inefficient, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS is Too Bureaucratic, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS is Too Slow to Change, NHS Sustainability, Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR), Office for National Statistics (ONS), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Patients Association, Patients' Association / Liberal Democrats Panel on Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future, Private Health Insurance (PHI), Rationing, Rationing Care, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, Sir Derek Wanless: Wanless Challenge, Social Health Insurance (SHI), Sustainability, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, User Charges, Wanless Challenge (2002), Whole-System Approaches
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Reducing Waste in the NHS; Improving Value, Lowering Costs and Achieving Sustainability? (Centre for Sustainable Healthcare / Academy of Medical Royal Colleges / BJS / NHS England / RCP)
Summary A report from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges comments on widespread overuse of tests and interventions. A range of options are presented for cutting waste. “Reducing waste in today’s climate of constrained resource … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Achieving Better Value, AEA Consultants (Waste and Energy Experts), Air Pollution, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare, BBC Health News, Best Value Duty, Better Outcomes: Better Value, Better Value, Better Value Health Care, Birmingham City Hospital, Borders General Hospital (BGH), British Journal of Surgery, Carbon Cost of Wasted Resources, Carbon Reduction Strategy, Care Closer to Home, Care Closer to Home Project, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, Choosing Wisely, Clinician Engagement (Purchasing), Clinician-Led Purchasing Scheme in Sheffield, CO2 Emissions, Collaborative Purchasing, Collaborative Purchasing Across Hospitals, Commissioning for Maximum Value, Commissioning for Value, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Consultant Ward Rounds, Economic Sustainability, Financial Constraints, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hardnosed Reviews (Value For Money), HFMA: Health Finance Managers Association, Improves Value, Improving Patient Flow in Operating Theatres, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Value in Diagnostic Services, Intermittent Chemotherapy, Lean and Quality Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma, Less Waste More Care, Less Waste More Health (RCP Report on Reducing Waste), Low-Value General Surgical Procedures, Lowering Costs, Medication Nonadherence, Medicines Adherence, Michael Macdonnell: Director of System Transformation at NHS England, Minimising Over-Purchasing, Minimum Re-testing Intervals Strategy, NHS Carbon Footprint, NHS Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust, NHS Values, NHS Values and Constitution, NICE Do Not Do Recommendations Database, Optimising Laboratory Test Requests, Overuse of Diagnostic or Monitoring Tests / Procedures, Overuse of Medication, Oxford University: Health Experiences Institute, Prescribing for Minor Self-Limiting Conditions, Prescribing for Minor Short-Term Conditions, Procurement and Disposal of Medical Supplies, Productive Operating Theatre (TPOT), Professor Des Breen: South Yorkshire Integrated Care System, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Quality and Sustainability, RAID Service in Birmingham, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reducing Early Hospital Readmissions, Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Laboratory Investigations, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Productive Waste, Reducing Radiology Referrals, Reducing Travel, Reducing Unplanned Hospitalisation, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in Radiology, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Rochdale PCT, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Said Business School, SDU, Self-Limiting Health Concerns, Sheffield Outpatient Antimicrobial (OPAT) Service, South Yorkshire Integrated Care System, STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions), STOPP and START Criteria, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Unit (SDU), Sustainable Development Unit for Public Health, Teleconferencing, Telehealth Clinics, University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS), Unnecessary Expiration of Unused Equipment, Unnecessary Tests, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Ward Rounds, Waste Hierarchy, Waste in Biomedical Research, Waste in Medical Training, Waste Reduction Toolkit, Wasted Resources, Which Waste Bin - Sustainability Flow Chart (RCP)
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Balancing Quality and Finance (NHS Confederation)
Summary This NHS Confederation briefing summarises a round table discussion about how NHS might achieve the best balance between the need to control or reduce costs and the aim of providing better care. This briefing was produced in partnership with … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS Alliance, NHS Confederation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Achieving Better Value, Balancing Quality and Finance, Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare, Best Value Duty, Better Value, Blame Culture, Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), Care Quality, Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Commissioning for Value, Cost–Benefit Analyses, Culture Change, Culture of Candour, Delivering Quality and Value, Disempowering Environments, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, End to Silo Working, Expensive Drugs, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding, Health Funding, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, High Quality Care for All, High Quality Commissioning, Holistic Quality Improvement, Honesty, Internal Distrust: Working Together, Kadcyla, Lack of Direction, Local Commissioning, Misaligned Funding Mechanisms, NHS Culture, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Leadership, NHS Quality, NHS: a Political Football, Openness and Transparency, Partnership and Collaboration, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Payment and Funding Systems, Political Candour, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Quality in the NHS, Quality Payments in the NHS, Quality: Outcomes, Reducing Spending on Expensive Drugs, Regulatory Barriers, Removing Regulatory Barriers, Resistance to Change, Shared System Leadership, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Social Care, System Leadership, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparency and Public Trust, Unresponsive Culture, Value Across Public Services, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Value Opportunities, Value Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Whole Service Approaches, Whole System Integration, Whole System Performance, Whole Systems Design, Working Together for Change
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