Prioritising patients for bariatric surgery

"This study extends our understanding of the publics’ preferences for priority setting to the context of bariatric surgery, and derives priority weights that could be used to assist bodies responsible for commissioning bariatric services."

Prioritising patients for bariatric surgery: building public preferences from a discrete choice experiment into public policy
JA Whitty, et al.
BMJ Open, 2015, 5:e008919

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A priority-setting method for evidence-based service development

"The method recruited and retained people with diverse experience and views within a health community and took account of a full range of evidence. It enabled a diverse group of stakeholders to travel together in a direction that converged with the messages coming out of the research and successfully yielded priorities for service improvement that met competing requirements."

Squaring the circle: a priority-setting method for evidence-based service development, reconciling research with multiple stakeholder views
R Hutten, GD Parry, T Ricketts, J Cooke
BMC Health Services Research, 2015, 15:320

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Right Care reading list: Priority-setting

NHS Right Care regularly publishes reading lists on specific themes relevant to the Right Care programme. The latest one is a reading list providing the best evidence on Priority-setting/Prioritisation.

Access the reading list here.

Thinking about rationing

"The aim of this discussion paper is to give the reader an understanding of the issues involved in rationing in the evolving context of the contemporary NHS in England."

Thinking about rationing
R Klein, J Maybin
The King's Fund
May 2012

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