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Publications - 2006


Link to Intelligent Ambulance Board Report 2006 pdfThe Intelligent Ambulance Board - November 2006

The Intelligent Ambulance Board is a major new report created by an independent steering group of experts from the NHS, led by Sir William Wells and supported by Dr Foster Intelligence. The report says that boards need accurate and timely information to scrutinise operational performance of their organisation and highlighted that value could be added through their strategic role.


Link to report pdfResponding to the challenges of Payment by Results - the incentives (and disincentives)

A new report from the Centre of Health Economics at the University of York, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence, explores the impact of Payment by Results and the information PCTs will need to monitor those positive and negative effects.


Link to report pdfThe Intelligent Board - July 2006

The Intelligent Commissioning Board is a major new report from a group of key NHS figures, executive and non-executive, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence. This report calls for greater accountability and transparency in commissioning and challenges the boards of PCTs and SHAs to improve the information they use to fulfil their strategic and governance roles.


Link to report pdfThe Intelligent Board - February 2006

The Intelligent Board is a major new report created by a group of key NHS figures led by Sir William Wells and supported by Dr Foster Intelligence. It proposes a basic set of criteria for information that Boards of acute and mental health trusts should have if they are to provide effective strategic leadership and monitoring of hospital performance.

Link to Keeping people out of hospital reportKeeping people out of hospital - the challenge of reducing emergency admissions

This report shows the findings of the first ever analysis of national hospital data to identify the impact of repeat emergency hospital admissions on the NHS, by patients referred to as high - impact users - those who are admitted to casualty at least three times in a year.

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