NHS efficiency map

The HFMA and NHS Improvement have worked in partnership to update and revise the NHS efficiency map. The map is a tool that promotes best practice in identifying, delivering and monitoring cost improvement programmes (CIPs) in the NHS. The map contains links to a range of tools and guidance to help NHS bodies improve their efficiency. The map is split into three sections: enablers for efficiency, provider efficiency and system efficiency.

Access the map here.

Tools to help provide care and support at home

"These pages provide useful tools, resources and examples of innovative approaches to enabling older people and people with disabilities to live well and independently in their own homes. They provide specific information across 8 key areas for adult social care commissioners, housing and care providers, primary care services and NHS hospital trusts on shaping, commissioning, funding, and delivering a range of care and support solutions for people living in their own homes."

Find out more here.

Review of operational productivity in NHS providers

"Many hospitals have told us they would welcome more detailed guidance on what
good looks like. We therefore believe it would be appropriate to publish, in stages, what a model NHS hospital could look like in terms of operational productivity and cost."

Review of operational productivity in NHS providers: Interim report
NHS Procurement
June 2015

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Value based assessment of drugs

"In 2010, the Government proposed moving towards a broader value-based system for assessing and pricing branded drugs. Such an approach aims to ensure that the price the NHS pays for a medicine better reflects its benefits. This briefing outlines recent proposals to change the current assessment methods."

Value based assessment of drugs
Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology
Houses of Parliament
Postnote, number 487, January 2015

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Emerging practice in outcome-based commissioning for social care

"This paper is a progress report exploring the lessons learnt from a variety of approaches taken by councils to “outcome-based commissioning” in adult social care (sometimes called payment by results)."

Emerging practice in outcome-based commissioning for social care: Discussion paper
J Bolton
Institute of Public Care
Oxford Brookes University
April 2015

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Read the related paper here.

Procurement and competition rules: Can the NHS be exempted?

"An incoming government could make broader changes to policy and the system architecture of the NHS that would ensure that commissioners and public sector providers were rarely subject to these rules in practice."

Procurement and competition rules: Can the NHS be exempted?
B Collins
The King's Fund
March 2015

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Why we need local deals to save public services

"We found an intelligent programme of modernisation, pay restraint, cost reduction, better procurement, outsourcing, management reorganisations and service sharing."

Bolder, braver and better: why we need local deals to save public services
Service Transformation Challenge Panel
Public Service Transformation Network
November 2014

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How to commission better mental health and wellbeing services

"Partnerships with relevant third sector organisations are critical to help commissioners reach young people."

Right Here:  How to commission better mental health and wellbeing services for young people
Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Mental Health Foundation
2014

Read more here.

Click here to read a summary from The Commissioning Elf.

NHS Atlas of Variation: Procurement

"The new online NHS Procurement Atlas of Variation will help hospitals to compare prices and identify where they need to drive down costs so they can invest in more doctors and nurses to care for patients, as well as in frontline care."

Access the Atlas here.

Inequalities, health behaviours and incentives

The latest issue of Eurohealth contains articles about:

• Inequalities and health behaviours
• Effectiveness and ethics of health incentives
• Political strategies in public health
• Nudging and solidarity

Eurohealth: Quarterly of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2014, 20(2)

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NHS 111 commissioning standards

"This document sets out the Commissioning Standards for the NHS 111 service in England which has been jointly developed between CCGs and NHS England."

NHS 111 commissioning standards
NHS England
June 2014

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Public sector commissioning of local mental health services from the third sector

"If commissioners are to lead the transformation of mental health services then there needs to be sufficient investment in their capacity and expertise to ensure that they have the tools and time to undertake this role."

Public sector commissioning of local mental health services from the third sector
J Rees, R Miller, H Buckingham
Third Sector Research Centre: working paper 122
May 2014

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The power of partnership: how to seize the potential

"This report aims to promote the use of partnership arrangements and to offer practical advice and useful case studies of partnership working."

The power of partnership: how to seize the potential: A practical guide to forming and maintaining cross-sector partnerships in healthcare
November 2013
Sodexo

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Methods for setting prices at national and local levels

"Our research highlights some of the challenges that commissioners face in agreeing local contracts that deliver the best outcomes for patients."

Local price setting and contracting practices for NHS services without a nationally mandated price: A research paper
Monitor
September 2013

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Better procurement, better value, better care

"There is too much variation across the NHS - far too many examples of different solutions to the same problem and wildly different prices being paid for the same product."

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

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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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Hypothetical case scenarios - procurement, patient choice and competition regulations

"These case scenarios are not intended to address all of the issues that might arise under the Regulations, but to highlight some of the core issues that each of the scenarios appear to raise and the key factors that are likely to be relevant to the question of whether or not the conduct is consistent with the Regulations."

Hypothetical case scenarios - procurement, patient choice and competition regulations
Monitor
May 2013

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NHS procurement, patient choice and competition

"This briefing has been produced for peers ahead of a debate that is taking place in the House of Lords on Wed 24 April, following a motion by Lord Hunt of King's Heath to annul the revised regulations. It may also be of interest to other individuals interested and engaged in discussions surrounding the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act."

Parliamentary Briefing: NHS procurement, patient choice and competition: response to draft regulations
Nuffield Trust
April 2013

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Procurement of healthcare (clinical) services: briefings for CCGs

The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has developed a series of procurement briefings for CCGs that summarise the key elements of legislation and guidance currently governing NHS procurement of healthcare services. Click here to access the briefing papers.

Procurement matters: a best practice procurement diagnostic

"Our Diagnostic Tool will help you to assess how effective your procurement practices are at present, and show how you can become more efficient."

Procurement matters: a best practice procurement diagnostic
Department of Health
February 2011

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