Right Care is an enabling programme focused on increasing value and
improving quality through addressing variation in the provision of
healthcare, promoting the use of health investment tools - such as
programme budgeting - and through sustainable systems and population
planning.
The BOA engages at senior level with Right Care on the commissioning of elective orthopaedic services.
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BOA Council member Professor Keith Willet is the Department of
Health’s National Clinical Director for Trauma and has been instrumental
in revitalising the focus on musculoskeletal trauma in England. For a
full list of the National Clinical Directors go to:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/Nationalclinicaldirectors
The Enhanced Recovery Programme is undertaken in partnership with the
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS Improvement, the NHS
Cancer Action Team and the Department of Health. A senior BOA member
sits on the enhanced Recovery Programme Board.
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The aim of Payment by Results (PbR)
is to provide a transparent, rules-based system for paying trusts. It
will reward efficiency, support patient choice and diversity and
encourage activity for sustainable waiting time reductions. Payment will
be linked to activity and adjusted for casemix. Importantly, this
system will ensure a fair and consistent basis for hospital funding
rather than being reliant principally on historic budgets and the
negotiating skills of individual managers.
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Patient Reported Outcome Measures
(PROMs) measure quality from the patient perspective. Initially covering four
clinical procedures, PROMs calculate the health gain after surgical treatment
using pre and post operative surveys.
From 1 April 2009, all providers of NHS-funded care have been required to collect PROMs.
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The
Centre for Workforce Intelligence is the national authority (commissioned by the Department of Health) on workforce planning and development, providing advice and information to the NHS and social care system.
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Sir
Bruce Keogh is Medical Director of the National Health Service in England. He is responsible for the
quality framework, clinical policy and strategy and postgraduate education of
doctors, dentists and pharmacists and postgraduate training of clinical
scientists.
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