Opportunity costs and local health service spending decisions

"The additional cost pressure represented by a new NICE Technology Appraisals is likely to be accommodated at least partly by greater efficiency and increased expenditure rather than displacement of services."

Opportunity costs and local health service spending decisions: a qualitative study from Wales
S Karlsberg Schaffer, J Sussex, D Hughes, N Devlin
BMC Health Services Research, 2016, 16:103

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The NHS under the coalition government

These two reports, published by The King's Fund look at how well the NHS has performed under the coalition government:

• Part one: NHS reform
  C Ham, B Baird, S Gregory, J Jabbal, H Alderwick
  February 2015

• Part two: NHS performance
  J Appleby, B Baird, J Thompson, J Habbal
  March 2015

Researching organizational culture during health service redesign and change

"This paper makes a methodological contribution to the study of culture in health care organizations."

Patients-people-place: developing a framework for researching organizational culture during health service redesign and change
NK Gale, J Shapiro, HST McLeod, S Redwood, A Hewison
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:106

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Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences

"The findings provide useful information on the public's valuation and acceptability of potential health service innovations."

Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences: a discrete choice experiment
S Erdem, C Thompson
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:360

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