This report describes the current financial state of the NHS and the reasons for the deterioration in financial performance and ultimately financial failure. These include weak leadership, legacy costs, payment by results (PbR), and the impact of the wider health economy.
This report is based on a roundtable event and interviews with key stakeholders and NHS provider chief executives who have already engaged with quality improvement as a routine way of working. It identifies practical lessons and focuses on how to create the right conditions for quality improvement to emerge and ...
The NHS is increasingly focusing on how it can improve the value of its services, to deliver the highest quality health outcomes for patients at the lowest cost possible. This report shares learning and insight from three NHS hospital trusts that have developed organisation-wide strategies for value improvement.