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Tag Archives: Variation Analysis
More on the Persistence of Variations in Care and Health Inequalities (BBC News / MTG / King’s Fund)
Summary The Medical Technology Group’s analysis of data from the 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), concerning regional inequalities in patient access to treatments and assessments involving medical technology, discovered unacceptable variations (including inequalities between the North and South of England). … 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, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 18 Week Wait and Patient Access, Acute Stroke Management, Acute Stroke Services, Assessment and Diagnosis, BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Get Rich or Die Young, BBC Panorama: Stockton - England’s Most Unequal Town, Cataract Operations, CCG Performance Statistics, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, CLAHRC: Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), Colonoscopy and CT Colonoscopy, Commissioning Task, CT Colonoscopies, DEMETRIQ Project, Diagnosis and Referral, Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Services Atlas, Diagnostic Testing Rates, Diagnostic Waiting Times, English Health Inequalities Strategy, Geographical Health Inequalities, Geographical Variations, Getting it Right First Time, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Care of Older People, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Hip Replacement, Hip Replacements, Imaging Services, Impact of English Health Inequalities Strategy, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Life Expectancy by Neighbourhood, Limb Amputations, Local Commissioning, Local Health Economies, Local Health Profiles, Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Medical Technology Access, Medical Technology Group (MTG), Mortality Rates Among Older People, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), NHS Atlas of Variation, NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Atlases of Variation, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), NHS Postcode Lottery, NHS Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Waiting Times, North-South NHS Divide, Postcode Lottery, Postcode Lottery in Access to Care, Postcode Lottery in Access to Treatment, Postcode Lottery in Standards of Healthcare, Quality Improvement, Reducing Variation, Regional Variations, Right First Time, RightCare’s NHS Atlas of Variation, Slope Index of Inequality, Slope Index of Inequality (SII) for Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy in England, Slope Index of Inequality in Life Expectancy, Specialist Stroke Units, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton: England’s Most Unequal Town, Stroke, Stroke Care Bundles, Stroke Units, Top Performing CCGs, Trends in NHS Outcomes Framework: Health Inequality Indicators, Trends in Public Health Outcomes Framework: Health Inequality Indicators, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates, Value Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Variation Analysis, Variation in Commissioning, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Worst Performing CCGs
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Age Discrimination in Availability of Surgery (BBC News / Royal College of Surgeons / Age UK)
Summary The Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK again found a wide variations in access to treatment. Their recent investigation examined surgery rates for six common procedures across England’s 211 CCGs and detected worrying differences in access to surgery between … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access All Ages, Access to Care, Access to Services, Access to Surgery Among Older People, Age, Age Discrimination, Age Discrimination in Availability of Surgery, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageism, Atlas of Variation, Avoidable Ill-Health, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, Breast Excision, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Cholecystectomy, Clare Marx: President of Royal College of Surgeons, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Colorectal Excision, Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Guidance, Commissioning Guides, Decline in Access to Treatment With Increasing Age, Equal Access to Treatment, Female Life Expectancy, Gallstones, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Hip Replacement, Inguinal Hernia Repair, Invest to Save: Cost Saving Benefits of Delayed Transfer to Residential Home, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Knee Replacement, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy Gaps, Local Variations, Male Life Expectancy, Missed Opportunities in the Commissioning Cycle, NHS Waiting Times, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Premature Mortality, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospitalisation, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Variation, Routine Operations, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG), Surgical Care for Older Patients, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variation Analysis, Variation in Commissioning, Variations in Quality of Care, Waiting Target for Routine Operations, Waiting Times, Waiting Times for Routine Operations
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The Environment and Health Atlas: England and Wales (BBC News / MRC / PHE)
Summary Researchers at Imperial College London have produced an online map of population-wide health information for England and Wales, which allows users to enter their postcodes to discover their local community’s risk of developing 14 conditions, including heart disease and … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, National, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged Atlas of Variation, BBC Health News, Bladder Cancer, Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer, COPD Mortality, Coronary Heart Disease Mortality, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics: Imperial College London, England and Wales, England and Wales. Lung Cancer, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Geographical Distributions of Disease Risk and Environmental Agents, Geographical Variations, Geographical Variations in Disease Risk, Imperial College London, Imperial College London: Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), Incidence of Bladder Cancer, Incidence of Brain Cancer, Incidence of Breast Cancer, Incidence of COPD Mortality, Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality, Incidence of Kidney Disease Mortality, Incidence of Leukaemia, Incidence of Liver Cancer, Incidence of Low Birth Weight, Incidence of Lung Cancer, Incidence of Malignant Melanoma, Incidence of Mesothelioma, Incidence of Prostate Cancer, Incidence of Still Birth, Kidney Disease Mortality, Leukaemia, Liver Cancer, Local Health Profiles, Local Information, Local Public Health, Local Variations, Low Birth Weight, Malignant Melanoma, Medical Research Council (MRC), Mesothelioma, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health: Imperial College London, Prostate Cancer, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Reducing Variation, SAHSU: Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), Still Birth, The Environment and Health Atlas: England and Wales, Variation Analysis
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Right Care Resource Centre (Right Care)
Summary Right Care has created a resource centre of casebooks, tools and assorted resources to help commissioners identify local opportunities. The categories of resources available include: Casebooks: Right Care Casebooks cover how local health communities have implemented aspects of the … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Care Pathways, CCG SPOT Tool, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning for Value Packs, Commissioning Glossary, Diabetes Care, Dictionary of Social Care, Glossary of Social Care, Jargon Explained, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economy, Local Health Profiles, Marginal Analysis, Networks, NHS England CCGs, NHS Right Care, NHS Right Care Principles, Population Healthcare, Population Healthcare Glossary, Programme Budgeting, Reading Lists, Redesigning Local Healthcare Systems, Right Care, Right Care and Population Healthcare, Right Care Approach, Right Care Casebooks, Right Care Programme, Right Care Resource Centre, Social Care Jargon Buster, SPOT Tool, Systems, Value Improvement, Value Opportunities, Variation Analysis, Where-What-How (Right Care Approach)
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Right Care’s HFMA Briefing on Achieving Value in Health Systems (NHS Right Care)
Summary Right Care is an NHS organisation, sponsored by NHS England and Public Health England, with the aim of increasing value for patients and commissioners. Their briefing for the Health Finance Managers Association (HFMA) describes the “Right Care Approach” to … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Accountable Integrated Care Systems (AICS), Achieving Value, AICS: Accountable Integrated Care Systems, Assumption-Based Impact Assessment, Atlas of Variations in Social Care in England, Audit-Based Impact Assessments, Bolton CCG, BPE: Business Process Engineering, Business Process Engineering (BPE), CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical and Corporate Leadership, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Engagement, Clinical Leadership, Decision Tree Case Study, Evidential Data, Financial Issues, Health Finance Managers Association (HFMA), HFMA: Health Finance Managers Association, HFMA’s Commissioning Faculty Technical Group, Impact Assessment, Impact Assessment Models, Indicative Data, JHWSs: Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies, Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies, Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS), Leadership, Local Health Economy, Local Health Profiles, NHS Atlas of Variation, NHS Atlases of Variation, NHS Bolton CCG, NHS Central Manchester, NHS Right Care, Non-Financial Considerations, Nottingham North and East CCG, Orthopaedic Reform Pathway Maps, PBMA: Programme Budgeting Marginal Analysis, Programme Budgeting, Programme Budgeting Marginal Analysis (PBMA), QIPP, QIPP (Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention), QIPP Right Care, QIPP Right Care Programme, Reducing Variation, Right Care Approach, Right Care Programme, Right Care Shared Decision Making Programme, Robust Business Processing, Sense-Checking Indicative Data, Service Review Pathway, Service Reviews, Shared Decision-Making, South Sefton CCG, Southport and Formby CCG, Spend and Outcome, Spend and Outcome Tool (SPOT), SPOT: Spend and Outcome Tool, Stakeholder Involvement, Triangulation, Triangulation of Indicators (Quality Spend Outcomes / Efficiency), Value, Variation Analysis, Variations in Social Care Quality and Spending in England, Warrington CCG, Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group, West Cheshire CCG, West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Where-What-How (Right Care Approach), Wigan Borough CCG
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