Efficiency – also described as allocative efficiency – means the best possible use of available funding in order to resource. Improved productivity is improving the quantity or quality of health outcomes with the same amount and type of resource (staff, hospitals and medical technology).
Despite the challenges it is facing, NHS productivity has increased at a higher rate than that of the wider UK economy. But, in the face of high projected spending growth and restricted funding, further increases in productivity are still required for a sustainable health and social care system.
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This research looks at how much health spending would need to rise to provide the level of service it does today and how much it would need to modernise and improve for the future.
The project team is drawing on behavioural insights to design a range of approaches for encouraging GPs and practice managers to engage with the prescriptions data available on the OpenPrescribing web...
Examining how simple changes in the hand washing areas of hospital wards can subconscious influence people to follow good hand hygiene practice. The study will test the effect that two triggers – a sm...
The research will also explore whether providing information about radiation exposure from CT scans and the associated increase in cancer risk encourages clinicians to use safer alternatives.
February 2016 Chart of the month. Between 2009/10 and 2014/15, hospital productivity increased by 1.0%, at an average rate of 0.19% per year.
Our submission to the Public Accounts Committee's inquiry on sustainability and financial performance of acute hospitals in England
This paper examines what outcomes-based commissioning means, the evidence to support it, progress to date on introducing the approach in England, and the optimum role of national policy in response to...
Over the coming months The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation will be exploring the concept of the transformation fund in more detail. We hope to address the question about what resource is require...
April 2015 chart of the month. The data show that variation in productivity among acute hospitals changed little between 2009/10 to 2013/14. Significant variations of productivity between trusts sugge...
Led by Chris Perry, Ipsos MORI, this research aimed to combine existing literature with expert interviews to better understand the opportunities to use behavioural interventions to improve efficiency ...
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) team investigated the effect that new health care technologies have on the NHS workforce.
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