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Provider incentives report published

The Health Foundation has published a new report from its Quest for Quality and Performance (QQUIP) entitled: “Financial Incentives, Healthcare Providers and Quality Improvements.”

LIMBIC project featured in Nursing in Practice

The Learning to Improve the Management of Back Pain in Primary Care project has been featured in Nursing in Practice.

Help shape the English patient safety campaign

The English patient safety campaign aims to save lives and reduce harm within the NHS. Have your say and join us at one of the events being held across England between 1 and 9 April 2008.

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Financial incentives, healthcare providers and quality improvements

Within healthcare there has been a longstanding interest in how the type and amount of payment to healthcare organisations and practitioners affects the type and amount of services received by consumers and, ultimately, the costs of healthcare to individuals, employers, insurers and governments. There has been an equally longstanding interest in how the cost of health services to consumers affects the services they seek out and use, along with the implications of this for overall costs at various levels of aggregation. There has been much less attention devoted by researchers to the impact of financial incentives on the quality of care.

Organisational interventions for stroke

Stroke is a major cause of death and disability among older adults. It is one of the top three causes of death in England and Scotland and a leading cause of disability among older adults. Approximately 130,000 strokes and an additional 20,000 transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) occur in England every year, and at least 300,000 people live with moderate or severe disability resulting from a stroke (National Audit Office, 2005). In addition to stroke’s impact on mortality and morbidity, it is also costly: stroke care costs the National Health Service (NHS) about £2.8 billion a year in direct costs, with an additional £1.8 billion in lost productivity and disability (National Audit Office, 2005).

Safe from harm

How The Health Foundation's Safer Patients Initiative is reducing medical incidents in 24 hospitals and making healthcare safer for patients

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