Mapping between different commissioners of healthcare

"This paper sets out how we created look-up files to map between different commissioning geographies. This enabled us, for example, to estimate overall health funding at an area-level despite the different geographical bases of the various commissioners."

Mapping between different commissioners of healthcare
Audit insights: Health
National Audit Office
March 2015

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Using clinical practice variations to identify and prioritise opportunities for disinvestment

"Policy-makers could use geographical variation as a starting point to identify procedures where health technology reassessment or RCTs might be needed to inform policy. Commissioners can use benchmarking to identify procedures with high local use, possibly indicating overtreatment."

Using clinical practice variations as a method for commissioners and clinicians to identify and prioritise opportunities for disinvestment in health care: a cross-sectional study, systematic reviews and qualitative study
W Hollingworth, et al.
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2015, 3(13)

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Personal Health Budgets: Early experiences of budget holders

This evaluation report looks at the early experiences of a small subsample of budget holders and their representatives, as personal health budgets are piloted in English primary care trusts (PCTs).

Personal Health Budgets: Early experiences of budget holders: 4th interim evaluation report
A Irvine, J Davidson, C Gendinning, K Jones, J Forder, J Caiels, E Welch, K Windle, P Dolan, D King
Department of Health
October 2011

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Setting priorities in health

"The research reported here demonstrates that PCTs have made significant progress in establishing priority-setting processes and, although there are some key weaknesses from which we can learn, they have used many different methods, procedures and processes in seeking to prioritise health needs."

Setting priorities in health: a study of English primary care trusts
S Robinson, H Dickinson, Iestyn Williams, T Freeman, B Rumbold, K Spence
Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham and the Nuffield Trust
September 2011

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NHS financial year 2010/11

"This report summarises the findings from the 2010/11 audit of primary care trust (PCT), NHS trust and strategic health authority (SHA) accounts."

NHS financial year 2010/11: a summary of auditors'work
Audit Commission
August 2011

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