October 11, 2011
Aims: The research reported in this document was designed to map the priority-setting activities taking place across the National Health Service (NHS) in England, and to explore and assess the effectiveness of these practices within specific local contexts.
The questions that provided the basis for the research were as follows:
- What priority-setting tools, processes and activities are practised currently as part of the commissioning processes of English primary care trusts (PCTs)?
- What barriers are experienced by PCTs seeking to implement explicit priority setting, and how are these being addressed?
- What other strengths and weaknesses can be identified in current priority-
setting practice?
- What learning can be derived that will be instructive for future priority setting within the NHS and elsewhere?
Click here to read the results of the study
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January 24, 2011
Health research priority setting processes assist researchers and policymakers in effectively targeting research that has the greatest potential public health benefit. Many different approaches to health research prioritization exist, but there is no agreement on what might constitute best practice. Moreover, because of the many different contexts for which priorities can be set, attempting to produce one best practice is in fact not appropriate, as the optimal approach varies per exercise. Therefore, following a literature review and an analysis of health research priority setting exercises that were organized or coordinated by the World Health Organization since 2005, we propose a checklist for health research priority setting that allows for informed choices on different approaches and outlines nine common themes of good practice. It is intended to provide generic assistance for planning health research prioritization processes. The checklist explains what needs to be clarified in order to establish the context for which priorities are set; it reviews available approaches to health research priority setting; it offers discussions on stakeholder participation and information gathering; it sets out options for use of criteria and different methods for deciding upon priorities; and it emphasizes the importance of well-planned implementation, evaluation and transparency.
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September 28, 2010
Swedish health care authorities use three key criteria to produce national guidelines for local priority setting: severity of the health condition; expected patient benefit; and cost-effectiveness of medical intervention. The objective of the study was to qualitatively assess how general practitioners (GPs) and nurses perceive the application of the three key priority-setting criteria.
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