Use of decision technologies in health care

These two audio slideshows are produced by the Nuffield Trust. They explain how decision technologies can be used in the NHS to help patients, clinicians, managers and commissioners make more informed decisions, and explore some of the existing applications of decision technologies in the health service.

• Listen to audio slideshow 1.
• Listen to audio slideshow 2.

Rationing health care

"The report therefore makes a number of recommendations for changes that could be made to improve the way the NHS benefits package is shaped, without going as far as specifying a national set of NHS-funded services."

Rationing health care
B Rumbold, V Alakeson, PC Smith
Nuffield Trust
February 2012

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How does lean work in emergency care?

"Improvements in waiting and lead times (19-24%) were achieved and sustained in the two years following lean-inspired changes to employee roles, staffing and scheduling, communication and coordination, expertise, workspace layout, and problem solving."

How does lean work in emergency care? A case study of a lean-inspired intervention at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
P Mazzocato, RJ Holden, M Brommels, H Aronsson, U Backman, M Elg, J Thor
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:28

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Leading the way to shared decision making

"The critical steps for the NHS Commissioning Board to make 'no decision about me, without me' a reality."

Leading the way to shared decision making: summit report
The Health Foundation
February 2012

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Critical success factors that enable individuals to die in their preferred place of death

"The main aim of this work was to try to identify the factors that influenced increases in numbers of people being able to die in their preferred place of death, which can largely be assumed to be outside of acute hospital settings, but is not always."

Critical success factors that enable individuals to die in their preferred place of death
National End of Life Care Programme
February 2012

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Quality standard for patient experience in adult NHS services

"The aim of this quality standard is to provide the NHS with clear commissioning guidance on the components of a good patient experience."

Quality standard for patient experience in adult NHS services
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
February 2012

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Delivering the NHS Foundation Trust pipeline: single operating model

"This document describes the first element of the Single Operating Model (SOM) that the four Strategic Health Authority (SHA) Clusters will adopt from early 2012."

Delivering the NHS Foundation Trust pipeline: single operating model: Part 1: SHA development and FT assurance
Department of Health
February 2012

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