Sue Lacey-Bryant
Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care: from low to high value?
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This report on Phase 1 of work by the QIPP Right Care Team looks at emerging views of commissioners and surgeons on the issue of commissioning policies on “low value” procedures. The studies were commissioned by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director. Background Recent years have seen the emergence of several listings of procedures [read the full story…]
Shared Operating Model for PCT Clusters
This sets out the processes and functions Primary Care Trust Clusters will need to perform and where it is important that there is consistency between Clusters. The report includes a month-by-month Guide of Shared Operating Model Milestones. High-level principles These principles run through the Model, including: Supporting the development of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs); developing [read the full story…]
Are clinicians engaged in quality improvement? Simplistic approaches to change end in disappointment
A Health Foundation review reports that active involvement of clinicians with quality improvement remains largely unrealised. With the challenge of having to do more with fewer resources, engagement becomes ever more critical yet the NHS “often relies on overly simplistic rational-linear approaches to change that: end in disappointment which could be predicted by the ‘person [read the full story…]
