HOW TO GET BETTER VALUE HEALTHCARE by Muir Gray

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How To Get Better Value Healthcare provides an understanding of the concept of healthcare value and how it can be increased.  It is written primarily for people paying for or managing health services, many of whom are clinicians, who need to understand that the key issue for the twenty-first century is value - the relationship between outcome and cost. 


The How To Handbooks are part of a range of resources developed by Better Value Healthcare.  The focus of attention in How To Get Better Value Healthcare is on the top ten questions about value:
   
  • - How much money should we spend on healthcare?
  • - Is the money allocated for the infrastructure that supports clinical care at a level which will maximise value?
  • - Have we distributed the money for clinical care to different parts of the country, and to different patient groups, by decision-making that is equitable, recognises variation in need, and maximises value for the whole population?
  • - Are all the interventions offered likely to confer a good balance of benefit and harm, at an affordable cost, to this group of patients?
  • - Are the patients most likely to benefit from the interventions, and least likely to be harmed by them, clearly defined?
  • - Is effectiveness being maximised?
  • - Are the risks of care being minimised?
  • - Can costs be reduced further without increasing harm or reducing benefit?    
  • - Could each patient's experience be improved?

The book received a very strong endorsement from the Editor of the Lancet on the 27th of August 2011 (Volume 378, page754) in which he wrote that How To Get Better Value Healthcare 'should be required reading for every medical student in every university in the world today'
2nd edition    published April 2011     ISBN 9781904202066