Seminar
Skill Mix, Incentives and Health Care Productivity,
- Date:
- 18 May 04
- Host:
- A joint one day seminar with the Oxford Policy Institute and the Economic and Social Research Council
- Outline
- This joint seminar with the Oxford Policy Institute and the Economic and Social Research Council considered whether productivity measurements should focus on treatments, individuals, teams or organisations. Alan Maynard introduced the day with his...
- Full Description
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presentation questioning what the appropriate focus of productivity measurement in health care should be.
Until recently, staffing structures in the UK were seen as independent of productivity. Roy Carr-Hill challenged this examined the evidence for (and against) the success of changes in skill mix; and the constraints on change and on collecting evidence about what works.
Karen Bloor explored explicit and implicit incentives, measurement challenges and the evaluation of clinical behaviour at both the individual and the team level, whilst Carol Propper reviewed the extent to which different payment regimes have affected productivity and quality at the level of organisations and hospital competition
The final presentation by Alan Maynard asked whether the hospital and doctor contract reform was a suitable case for evaluation, before a lively, wide ranging discussion took place among the audience and presenters.