NICER Guidance: fostering an organisational culture of evidence-based decision making

"Our objectives were to ensure that the concept and practice of evidence-based decision making was widely understood and adopted in our commissioning and de-commissioning decisions, project start-up business cases and individual funding request evaluations."

NICER Guidance: fostering an organisational culture of evidence-based decision making
Organisation: Suffolk County Council
NICE Shared Learning example
March 2015

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Barriers to improvement in the NHS

"Every day, teams within the NHS strive to make things better, but individual, organisational and system-wide barriers get in the way. This evidence scan compiles published research about the key barriers to improvement in the NHS."

What's getting in the way?: Barriers to improvement in the NHS
D de Silva
The Health Foundation
February 2015

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NHS payment reform: lessons from the past and directions for the future

"To ensure that the long-term reforms to the payment system support the NHS to deliver efficient, high-quality care, Monitor and NHS England need to develop an approach that is:

• Comprehensive.
• Focused
• Aligned with wider system changes
• Transparent and evidence-based
• Predictable and credible"

NHS payment reform: lessons from the past and directions for the future
A Charlesworth, L Hawkins, L Marshall
Nuffield Trust
February 2014

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Clinical policies and statements for specialised services commissioning

"These new clinical commissioning policies underpin the commissioning of specialised services. They are important in clearly defining what NHS England expects to be in place for providers to offer evidence-based, safe and effective services and importantly, sets equitable access to services across the country."

Access the clinical commissioning policies here.