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October 27, 2008
NHS System Reform Annual Evidence Update 2008
System reform (Health Management Specialist Library)
http://www.library.nhs.uk/healthManagement
The Health Management Specialist Library's Annual Evidence Update on NHS System Reform provides an opportunity to bring together up-to-date knowledge and evidence about several key strands of NHS reform published since our first National Knowledge Week on system reform in June 2007. The key strands are:
* patient choice
* payment by results
* commissioning
* foundation trusts
* alternative providers (including independent and third sector)
* regulation
The National Library for Health (NLH) Specialist Libraries have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each NLH Specialist Library identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.
Posted by S.Austin at October 27, 2008 6:07 PM