Values-based commissioning of health and social care
By: Christopher Heginbotham
Series: Values-based medicine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781107603356
Subjects: Medical care; National health services; Evaluation; Social service; MEDICAL / General
Description: "Health and social care commissioning is a values-driven as well as evidence-driven enterprise. However, whereas there has been an expectation that the evidence-base of commissioning should be made fully explicit, the corresponding values-base has been left largely implicit. The book addresses this subject through a detailed discussion of values and values-based practice, illustrated with case examples, and by developing a critique of existing commissioning. This approach enables commissioners to identify and make explicit the often diverse values of all those involved, whether as commissioners, providers or users of services. It provides a skills base and other support processes for working with differences in values held by all those engaged in making commissioning decisions. This will be essential reading for doctors, both experienced and in training, commissioning managers, professional staff in NHS Foundation Trusts and the private sector and all 'at the sharp' end of practice"--

"Values-based practice is not another category of commissioning to rank with practice based commissioning, locality commissioning, or commissioning for outcomes in health and social care. Values-basing is about the processes that can be applied to any form of commissioning, anywhere. This book explores these processes. The UK revolution in commissioning health and social care makes a very convenient backdrop, but not a reason, for a highly topical discussion of what values-basing really means"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Values-based practice in health and social care; 2. Policy and practice; 3. Health and social care reforms in England; 4. Evidence and outcomes; 5. Patient and public involvement; 6. Values-based commissioning and public health; 7. Integrative commissioning of health and social care; 8. Values in priority setting and resource allocation; 9. Values and outcomes; 10. Market stimulation; 11. Management and leadership; Endnote; References and bibliography; Index.