Healthcare Finance

Healthcare Finance November 2009

November’s Healthcare Finance concentrates on three of the biggest issues in the NHS today – efficiency, primary care performance management and the development of payment by results. There is an examination of how primary and community services can become more efficient and how Lean can help NHS organisations streamline their processes. We explain developments in world class commissioning assurance, look at how PCTs got through the first year of the use of resources assessment and ask if lessons from overseas should influence the implementation of PBR in mental health.