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Reducing emergency admissions - December 2008
News article
4 December 2008
Short stay emergency admissions - September 2008
News article
30 September 2008
Spending on disease: diabetes - September 2008
News article
30 September 2008
Reference costs and allocations - March 2008
News article
31 March 2008
Primary care spending - January 2008
News article
31 January 2008

Health data briefings

Our data briefings are short (one-page) discussions of current topics relating to good financial management. In each case, they present the evidence, raise questions, and suggest how trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) may use the wide range of data available to them, together with their own local expertise, to find the answers.
 
 
Reducing emergency admissions - December 2008
4 December 2008
What's your strategy for reducing emergency admissions?
Short stay emergency admissions - September 2008
30 September 2008
Variation in the number of emergency admissions discharged on the same day is inexplicably high.
Spending on disease: diabetes - September 2008
30 September 2008
All PCTs should be asking questions about where they spend and what they get for their money.
Reference costs and allocations - March 2008
31 March 2008
In an earlier briefing we noted that deprivation has a significant effect on 2005/06 reference costs. The trend is also observable in the latest reference cost data for 2006/07.
Primary care spending - January 2008
31 January 2008
Recently published programme budgets contain, for the first time, the split of spending between primary and secondary settings.
Trust financial out-turns - January 2008
31 January 2008
With most trusts breaking even or making a surplus in 2006/07, the position was much better than in 2005/06.
Reference costs - October 2007
31 October 2007
The Reference Cost Index (RCI) is currently the only measure of relative trust efficiency. It measures provider cost per finished consultant episode.
Drug treatment services - October 2007
31 October 2007
In 2007/08 there is £398 million in central government funding available to distribute to local partnerships to fund drug and alcohol treatment services.
Avoidable admissions - September 2007
30 September 2007
Primary care trusts (PCTs) have strong incentives under Payment by Results (PbR) to prevent people being admitted to hospital with conditions which ideally should never warrant it.
Mental health services - September 2007
30 September 2007
Mental health providers and primary care trust (PCT) commissioners need to analyse data to understand whether implementation of their service strategies is resulting in the desired shift in service ...
Health data briefings