‘NHS leaders must embrace allocative efficiency - identifying necessary investments and making difficult decisions to discontinue outdated or low-value services…’ @HSJnews#ValueBasedHealthcare#NHSreform
Weekly War on Waste from @muirgray focusing on the @NHS constitution & personal value...
"Knowledge is the most powerful tool for patient empowerment—it should be dispensed more often than drugs"
Read more 🔗https://t.co/PCy7yBN4JK
'Saving the NHS'
@muirgray gives a clear key message 'Difficult decisions will be needed, and we must meet this collective challenge together...'
https://t.co/vbL4Yj2cJr
Weekly War on Waste 🚮 from @muirgray about unneeded health screenings, where checks for thyroid, kidney, and liver disease were done alongside a simple cholesterol test...
Read here: https://t.co/9SJq3rjVAV
Weekly War on Waste 🚮 from @muirgray
'Improving our health will reduce the strain on social care' is the title of a typically perceptive article by @scarlettmcnally in @bmj_latest on 11th Dec
Read full article here....
https://t.co/guxGOLTWa8
Weekly War on Waste by @muirgray; @bmj_latest has published an excellent, terrifying paper on: Direct-to-consumer tests: emerging trends are cause for concern (04.12.24 BMJ 2024;387:e080460).
Read more here: https://t.co/Mk95WDuBAc
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“We need Resourceful Patients and Resourceful Citizens to minimise waste and save universal healthcare, and they need to be given knowledge and support to use that knowledge including a clear statement of their responsibilities.”
Every citizen, not just patients, needs to be informed about their responsibilities, set out in a contract or ‘terms and conditions’ setting out what is expected of them. https://t.co/sYu31qN2GO
This Friday @muirgray will be talking at the Health Value Summit in Brazil, on the need for value based healthcare to minimise waste & optimise value #VBHC
Register here (In Portuguese): https://t.co/2RXKBSihzr
League tables are bad because they vastly oversimplify the study of NHS variation.
But exposing the huge unwarranted variation in care standards is vital.
What, for example, justifies this?
The 1st VBHC Summit of the Americas will take place on Nov 22 at Unimed Porto Alegre in Brazil🇧🇷. The summit will celebrate promising initiatives from Brazil & Canada, & encourage others to consider their projects for the following year.
Register here 🇵🇹: https://t.co/d1pYMlycDG
Publication of 2nd edition of Sod70! https://t.co/zrbd8tOITR by @BloomsburyBooks
10 years after the 1st edition - how to live well in your 70s, 80s and 90s!
https://t.co/vWR03Sex8w
Another good Commission Report on self harm published by @TheLancet https://t.co/G6PfZ0pLGf…
We need a population based system & change of culture. The change of culture is a clear indication of the need for leadership - https://t.co/8TAPvkfGpg
"Simply piling on more finite societal resources to deliver more care, even at higher quality and efficiency, will not save the NHS . . ."
Anant Jani and @muirgray on why we need to also invest in local public health and community services
https://t.co/M5NzKNicCp
New paper from @bmj_latest by Anant Jani @muirgray
outlining a case for why NHS leaders must focus on resource optimisation within the NHS, which is essential given that the UK is in a 'doom loop'
https://t.co/z4rtbqTICD