The Quality and Outcomes Framework

The Quality and Outcomes Framework
Author: Stephen Gillam
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2011
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1846194563

The Quality and Outcomes Framework has deeply divided UK general practitioners. I commend this book and applaud its determination to scrutinise every aspect of the Quality and Outcomes Framework - good and bad and in-between. - From the Foreword by Iona Heath General practice in the UK faces transformation following the introduction of the Quality & Outcomes Framework (QOF), a pay-for-performance scheme unprecedented in the NHS, and the most comprehensive scheme of its kind in the world. Champions claim the QOF advances the quality of primary care; detractors fear the end of general practice as we know it. The introduction of the QOF provides a unique opportunity for research, analysis and reflection. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the QOF, examining the claims and counter-claims in depth through the experience of those delivering QOF, comparisons with other countries, and analysis of the wealth of research evidence emerging. Assessments of the true impact of QOF will influence the development of health services in the UK and beyond. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the future of general practice and primary care, including health professionals, trainers, students, MRCGP candidates and researchers, managers, and policy-makers and shapers.

Getting Health Economics into Practice

Getting Health Economics into Practice
Author: David Kernick
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-08-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1498790291

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks bore little resemblance to the practical requirements of end users. Now, this book presents the concepts and insights that health economics has to offer in a way that is accessible to every healthcare decision maker. Getting Health Economics into Practice is for all those who are involved in the planning, commissioning and delivery of healthcare. It illuminates the practical value that the concepts and principles of health economics can offer decision makers at all levels. Comprehensive and extensive, it is the first such book to be edited by a clinician rather than a health economist, with contributions from an expert panel of specialists. This approach ensures it is accessible and useful in the everyday work of health professionals. It is relevant for all healthcare sectors, in particular for Primary Care Trusts, and is essential reading for managers, researchers, and especially practitioners.

International Health Care Reform

International Health Care Reform
Author: Colleen M. Flood
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2003
Genre: Cross-cultural studies
ISBN: 9780415316163

This volume examines the two models of health care reform - managed competition and internal markets - that are increasingly becoming the dominant paradigm in European and North American policy.

GP Tomorrow

GP Tomorrow
Author: Jamie Harrison
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781857755602

This guide to GPs' career development provides a framework for a career to develop and be supported at all stages, and includes practical examples which illustrate opportunities for training and personal enrichment. This second edition has been fully updated to include new developments.

Managing diabetes, managing medicine

Managing diabetes, managing medicine
Author: Martin D. Moore
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1526113082

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing literature has cast health care management as either a political imposition or an assertion of medical control, this work positions managerial medicine as a co-constructed venture. Although driven by different motives, doctors, nurses, professional bodies, government agencies and international organisations were all integral to the creation of managerial systems, working within a context of considerable professional, political, technological, economic and cultural change.

The Routledge History of Disease

The Routledge History of Disease
Author: Mark Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 113485787X

The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present. Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening practices in twentieth-century USA to the ayurvedic tradition in ancient India and the pioneering studies of mental illness that took place in nineteenth-century Paris, as well as discussing the various sources and methods that can be used to understand the social and cultural contexts of disease. Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315543420.ch24

The DH Register of Cost-effectiveness Studies

The DH Register of Cost-effectiveness Studies
Author: James Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1995
Genre: Cost effectiveness
ISBN:

The department of Health has recently published a register of economic evaluations of health care treatments and programmes (Register of Cost-Effectiveness Studies). The objective is to assess the value for money from alternative ways of allocating scarce resources. The present paper gives details of an approach for assessing the methodological quality of economic evaluations. A worked example of a search in the register together with the interpretation of the existing register and the future reporting of economic evaluations are discussed

BMJ

BMJ
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

Accounting Control and Controlling Accounting

Accounting Control and Controlling Accounting
Author: Jane Broadbent
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781907625

This book critically analyses the extensive forms of societal regulatory requirements using forms of Accounting Control, particularly those that are exerted over public sector organisations and the strategies of Controlling Accounting that are used by these organisations to minimise the effects of these requirements.