Capitation: a potential new payment model to enable integrated care

"Capitated payment can offer significant benefits to patients but there are some risks. For the approach to deliver its full potential benefits to patients and to the health system as a whole, commissioners and providers need to agree on mechanisms for mitigating the risks."

Capitation: a potential new payment model to enable integrated care: A supporting document of ‘2015/16 National Tariff Payment System: A consultation notice’

Monitor, NHS England
November 2014

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Report on inquiry into respiratory deaths

"Strategic and effective investment has the power to bring not only significant savings to the NHS, but improvements in patients’ quality of life and a significant reduction in deaths from respiratory disease."

Report on inquiry into respiratory deaths
APPG on Respiratory Health
June 2014

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Distractions and their impact on patient safety

"These risk reduction strategies include developing systems and processes that reduce or eliminate distractions and teaching effective techniques for handling distractions."

Distractions and their impact on patient safety
M Feil
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, 2013, 10(1):1-10

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Educating surgical patients to reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism

"A simple method of introducing patient education at pre-assessment clinic and as part of their discharge planning, for major elective surgery, is an effective system in improving patient understanding of VTE, its risk factors and the importance of prophylaxis."


Educating surgical patients to reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism: an audit of an effective strategy
H Sadideen, JM O'Callaghan, M Navidi, M Sayegh
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Short Reports, 2011, 2(12):97

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