One chance to get it right

"This document sets out the approach to caring for dying people that health and care organisations and staff caring for dying people in England should adopt in future. The approach should be applied irrespective of the place in which someone is dying: hospital, hospice, own or other home and during transfers between different settings."

One chance to get it right: improving people’s experience of care in the last few days and hours of life
Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People
Department of Health
June 2014

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Priority setting - NHS Right Care reading list

"Priority-setting is by no means clear-cut, in part because it involves values as well as evidence. People who are responsible for resources, whether those resources be financial or time related, have to make priority decisions. They either have to allocate new resources or reallocate existing resources."

Right Care essential reading: priority-setting/prioritisation
N Pearce-Smith, M Gray
NHS Right Care
May 2014

Access the reading list here.

Involving patients in setting priorities for healthcare improvement

"Patient involvement can change priorities driving healthcare improvement at the population level. Future research should test the generalizability of these findings to other contexts, and assess its impact on patient care."

Involving patients in setting priorities for healthcare improvement: a cluster randomized trial
A Boivin, P Lehoux, R Lacombe, J Burgers, R Grol
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:24

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Thinking about rationing

"The aim of this discussion paper is to give the reader an understanding of the issues involved in rationing in the evolving context of the contemporary NHS in England."

Thinking about rationing
R Klein, J Maybin
The King's Fund
May 2012

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