Disinvestment in the age of cost-cutting sound and fury. Tools for the Spanish National Health System

Sandra García-Armesto, Carlos Campillo-Artero and Enrique Bernal-Delgado

Health Policy, 2013, vol. 110, issue 2, 180-185

Abstract: This paper proposes the framing of disinvestment strategies as the “value for money” approach suitable for the current situation of acute budget restrictions. Building on the experiences from other countries, it first reviews the instruments already available for implementing this approach within the Spanish National Health Service (SNS) named(A)The mandate to do it: regulatory framework(B)The capacity to identify “low value” interventions and produce guidance on best practice(C)The capacity to monitor compliance to and effects of “enforced” guidance

Keywords: Disinvestment; Spanish National Health System; Financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.01.007

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