Setting Priorities in Health and Social Care Integration: Economic and Provider Perspectives: 8th March 2016
Setting Priorities in Health and Social Care Integration: Economic and Provider Perspectives
Fifteen Ninety Nine (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons), Glasgow
8th March 2016
This seminar from the Health Economics Network for Scotland and What Works Scotland explored approaches to priority setting in health and social care. Presentations included government, economic and provider perspectives on a recent project developing priority setting in health and social care.
The seminar aimed to help inform those involved in the development of health and social care partnerships and those working in those partnerships as they seek to prioritise areas of investment. It brought together policy makers in both central government and those working in local authorities, community planning partnerships and health and social care partnerships, service providers and academics and explored how decisions can be made that take into account the costs and benefits of various approaches and what effect different approaches may make. The aim was to help those involved in health and social care integration develop an approach that will allow them to identify the potential effect of shifting patterns of investment, and disinvestment, within and between programmes of activity in terms of outcomes for patients and service users, and effective resource use.