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 …

The decommissioning of a health‐care service is invariably a highly complex and
contentious process which faces many implementation challenges. There has been little …

Background Drawing on the literature on cutback management, this article deals with
healthcare decommissioning in times of austerity. Politicians and decision-makers are …

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 …

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 …

The inclusion of health and social care as part of Greater Manchester devolution took many
by surprise. Health and social care practitioners and managers have been working together …

In February 2015, Greater Manchester secured an agreement with the government to take
what was described as “devolved control” of the£ 6 billion pa budget for health and social …

Background: Internationally, many health care interventions were diffused prior to the
standard use of assessments of safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Disinvestment …