The Next Generation of Incentives to Help Doctors Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care (podcast)

"To improve decision-making at the health care provider level, policies that blend financial and non-financial incentives are being developed and tested. A new initiative called Incentives 2.0 is exploring this new type of payment reform."

The Next Generation of Incentives to Help Doctors Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care
S Hausman
The Commonwealth Fund
Oct 2014

Access the podcast here.

RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach: a guide to policy engagement and influence

"ROMA is an approach to improving your policy engagement processes, to influence change. It comprises a suite of tools that any organisation can use at any stage in their policy engagement process" 

ROMA: a guide to policy engagement and influence
Research and Policy in Development
Overseas Development Institute
2014

Find out more and access the guide here.

Department of Health Improvement Plan

"The plan has been developed following an assessment of the 4 critical themes of organisational effectiveness: performance; efficiency and innovation; capability; strategic risk and leadership of change. It sets out where the department is currently, what it has achieved, where it needs to be in future and the improvements that the department needs to make to get there."

Department of Health Improvement Plan
Department of Health
April 2014

Read more here.

PDQ-Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking

PDQ (“pretty darn quick”)-Evidence facilitates rapid access to the best available evidence for decisions about health systems. It includes systematic reviews, overviews of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence. PDQ-Evidence was developed and is maintained by systematically searching PubMed and other databases for relevant systematic reviews and overviews of reviews.

The database is available here.