Decommissioning health care: identifying best practice through primary and secondary research
– a prospective mixed-methods st Page 1 HEALTH SERVICES AND DELIVERY RESEARCH …

Background The need to better understand processes of removing, reducing, or replacing
healthcare services that are no longer deemed essential or effective is common across …

In the context of an austere financial climate, local health care budget holders are
increasingly expected to make and enact decisions to decommission (reduce or stop …

Costs will rather increase: Actions and arguments against decommissioning in local health
services in Sweden | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings …

Background NHS expenditure has stagnated since the economic crisis of 2007, resulting in
financial pressures. One response is for policy-makers to regulate use of existing health …

Background Health care services must deliver high-quality, evidence-based care that
represents sound value. Disinvestment is the process of withdrawing resources from any …

Purpose Decentralisation of decision‐making from central to lower level organisation has
been proposed as a way to increase innovation and make services more responsive to local …

Objectives To examine the challenges to using systematic review evidence to develop
guidance for decommissioning ineffective health services, and the problems experienced by …

Healthcare decision-makers have always faced the challenge of allocating finite resources,
but the global economic downturn places extra pressure on health systems to meet rising …

Background Decentralisation is a common mechanism for health system reform; yet,
evidence of how it impacts health systems remains fragmented. Despite published findings …