Waiting time prioritisation: Evidence from England

"Following initiatives in other OECD countries, the English NHS and other healthcare systems faced with increasing excess demand for elective surgery should put more emphasis in encouraging further prioritisation on the list and consider formal policies to enforce this."

Waiting time prioritisation: Evidence from England: CHE Research Paper 114
N Gutacker, R Cookson, L Siciliani
Centre for Health Economics
September 2015

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Economic crisis, health systems and health in Europe

"This report from the WHO looks at the 2008 economic crisis and how it has reinforced the understanding that fiscal pressures threaten health and health system performance. The report focuses on a study of over 45 countries’ experiences and policy responses, to address key questions of how different European countries dealt with the crisis and how this affected the performance of healthcare systems, as well as the population’s health."

Economic crisis, health systems and health in Europe: Country experience
A Maresso, et al. (eds).
World Health Organization
September 2015

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English devolution: Local solutions for a successful nation

"This paper sets out local government’s offer of a new partnership with Government to tackle the big challenges facing our country and secure a bright future for all."

English devolution: Local solutions for a successful nation
Local Government Association
May 2015

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What is the evidence on the economic impacts of integrated care?

"Failure to better integrate or coordinate services along the care continuum may result in suboptimal outcomes and available evidence of integrated care programmes points to a positive impact on the quality of patient care and improved health or patient satisfaction outcomes."

Policy summary 11: What is the evidence on the economic impacts of integrated care?
E Nolte, E Pitchforth
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
World Health Organization
2014

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Financial mechanisms for integrating funds for health and social care

"Although some schemes succeeded in shifting care closer to home, and some achieved short term reductions in acute care utilisation, no scheme demonstrated a sustained and long term reduction in hospital use."

Financial mechanisms for integrating funds for health and social care: an evidence review: CHE Research Paper 97
A Mason, M Goddard, H Weatherly
Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit
The University of York
March 2014

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A framework for assessing health system resilience in an economic crisis

"The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for assessing the resilience of health systems in terms of how they have adjusted to economic crisis."

A framework for assessing health system resilience in an economic crisis: Ireland as a test case
S Thomas, C Keegan, S Barry, R Layte, M Jowett, C Normand
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:450

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Better procurement, better value, better care

"The more transparent we can make procurement performance, the more it will drive behaviours to improve."

Better procurement, better value, better care: a procurement development programme for the NHS
Department of Health, NHS England
August 2013

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Ensuring the continuity of health care services

"If a health care provider gets into financial difficulties, commissioners and Monitor must work together to make sure that patients continue to have access to services which are critical to patients and which no other provider may be close enough to or able to deliver."

Guidance for commissioners on ensuring the continuity of health care services: Designating commissioner requested services and location specific services
Monitor
March 2013

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Challenges in health care financing and provision

The Nordic Economic Policy review has produced a special issue about challenges in health care financing and provision. Articles include:

• Ageing populations: more care or just later care?
• Lifestyle, health and costs - what does available evidence suggest?
• The economics of long-term care: a survey
• The role of primary health care in controlling the cost of specialist health care
• Payments in support of effective primary care for chronic conditions
• An economic assessment of price rationing versus non-price rationing of health care
• Should pharmaceutical costs be curbed?
• Productivity differences in Nordic hospitals: Can we learn from Finland?

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Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years

"In this paper, John Appleby analyses the factors that influence the demand for health and social care, taking a long-term perspective."

Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: why think long term?
J Appleby
The King's Fund
January 2013

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Clinical-financial partnerships in the NHS

"The scale of the NHS’s financial challenges, which is predicted to last for the foreseeable future, has led to increasing acceptance that more sustainable and integrated strategies and approaches are urgently needed to successfully deliver the necessary efficiency savings and quality improvements."

Clinical-financial partnerships in the NHS: why we need them to deliver the cost and quality challenge
A Neath, N Downham, M Mugglestone
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
November 2012

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Assessing the impact of economic evidence on policymakers in health care

"This is a systematic review of published studies to assess what is known about how economic evidence from cost-effectiveness analysis or cost-utility analysis makes an impact on health care decisionmaking in the United States and in other countries."

Assessing the impact of economic evidence on policymakers in health care: A systematic review
Johns Hopkins University Evidence-Based Practice Center
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
October 2012

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Measuring well-being: a guide for practitioners

This short handbook on measuring well-being is produced by the Centre for Well-Being at the New Economics Foundation. It is designed primarily for voluntary organisations and community groups, providing tools for thinking about well-being and measuring it.

Measuring well-being: a guide for practitioners
J Michaelson, S Mahony
New Economics Foundation
July 2012

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Impact of the economic downturn and policy changes on health inequalities in London

"This literature review is the first stage in work aimed at assessing and monitoring the impact of the recession and welfare reforms on health inequalities in London."


Impact of the economic downturn and policy changes on health inequalities in London
UCL Institute of Health Equity
June 2012


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The economic impact of improvements in primary healthcare performance

"Better health outcomes have a positive impact on employment, productivity and economic growth."

The economic impact of improvements in primary healthcare performance
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
May 2012

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Sustainable health and social care

"Evidence suggests that adopting various measures could generate considerable cost savings for the health and social care sector, as well as reducing its environmental impacts."

Sustainable health and social care: connecting environmental and financial performance
C Naylor, J Appleby
The King's Fund
March 2012

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Inpatient care for people with diabetes

"Long-term complications arising from sub-optimal care can impose further costs on individuals and their carers, on the health and social care system and on the public sector more generally."

Inpatient care for people with diabetes: the economic case for change
M Kerr
Insight Health Economics
November 2011

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Economic regulation in health care

"This paper is essential reading for policy-makers considering the role of economic regulation in health care, and those tasked with implementing the new system of regulation in England."


Economic regulation in health care: What can we learn from other regulators?
A Dixon, T Harrison, C Mundle
The King's Fund
November 2011

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Uncertainty, evidence and irrecoverable costs

"This research was commissioned to inform when NICE should approve health technologies only in research (OIR) or with research (AWR)."


Uncertainty, evidence and irrecoverable costs: Informing approval, pricing and research decisions for health technologies
K Claxton, S Palmer, L Longworth, L Bojke, S Griffin, C McKenna, M Soares, E Spackman, J Youn
Centre for Health Economics
October 2011

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Burden of disease and economic evaluation of healthcare interventions

"The allocation of limited available healthcare resources demands an agreed rational allocation principle and the consequent priority setting."

Burden of disease and economic evaluation of healthcare interventions: are we investigating what really matters?
F Catala-Lopez, A Garcia-Altes, E Alvarez-Martin, R Genova-Maleras, C Morant-Ginestar, A Parada
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:75

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