Managing the NHS credit crunch! UK Forum on Health Care Priority Setting
Tuesday 27th January 2009
Location: Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham University
With NHS budget increases levelling off pre-credit crunch and now with the crunch itself, there has never been a more important time, in recent years at least, to be thinking about how to manage scarce health care resources for maximum gain to patients and the wider community.
During 2005-6 a group of around 130 NHS managers and researchers from various disciplines met for a series of five seminars sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council under the title of ‘Managing Scarcity in the NHS: theory-to-practice; practice-to-theory’. The success of this Series led to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement funding what has now become known as the UK Forum on Health Care Priority Setting.
As well as sponsoring the recent meeting of the International Society on Priorities in Health Care, the Forum:
- has already produced a series of briefing papers on health care priority setting, published by the NHS Confederation and now available on the Forum’s website;
- is about to embark on another series of meetings over the next two years. The first of these meetings is detailed over the page. We will be following this by arranging further meetings on the topics of ‘building ethical processes and thinking into health care priority setting’, ‘NHS Evidence and priority setting’ and a joint meeting with other priority setting fora in other countries.
To join us all you have to do to register your interest and get on our e-mail list is to send an e-mail to Anita Tibbs at the Institute of Health & Society at Newcastle University – anita.tibbs@ncl.ac.uk.
You can also let Anita know if you wish to attend our first meeting in Birmingham.
We will also be creating website over the next few months.
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