Competency 6 - Prioritising investment to meet local needs within the values of the NHS
See below for a list of resources and articles which relate to this Competency. For each resource you will find a helpful summary and combined rating for relevance, accessibility and usefulness. Five is our highest rating and one is the lowest.
PREDICTIVE MODELLING SKILLS AND INSIGHTS
- Humana White Paper 0407: How the use of data will affect NHS PCT performance
- Patient Insight
- Harvard Business Review: Competing on Analytics (Thomas H Davenport)
- Treating Inequalities
PRIORITISATION OF INVESTMENT TO IMPROVE POPULATION’S HEALTH
- Distributed Knowledge Management in Health Care Administration
- Humana White Paper 0407: How the use of data will affect NHS PCT performance
- Harvard Business Review: Competing on Analytics (Thomas H Davenport)
- Treating Inequalities
Humana White Paper 0407: How the use of data will affect NHS PCT performance
An overview of the role KM will play in reshaping the NHS over the next five years, with particular focus on predictive modelling and how it translate complex data into strategic information for better decision-making and better commissioning. Very useful.
Usability rating: 5
This report from Dr Foster suggests how healthcare providers might systematically incorporate the experiences, views and preferences of their service users into their organisations’ planning and performance measurement. It argues that services should be designed with input from users, using the ‘wisdom of crowds’ and drawing on delivery-end experiences to inform providers about the usefulness of the services they provide. Services designed in such a way possess intimate knowledge of those they service, and will therefore be able to adapt to their users’ changing needs.
Usability rating: 4
Harvard Business Review: Competing on Analytics (Thomas H Davenport)
Written by one of the gurus of KM, this paper looks at success stories who have made data collection and analysis a key driver in their business model. Davenport’s book on Knowledge Management is listed in the Further Reading section.
Usability rating: 3
In the third issue of its journal, Intelligence, Dr Foster addresses sustainably reducing health inequalities. The report highlights examples of organisations working to achieve local solutions to national problems. The case studies featured here focus on two key areas of the battle against inequalities: changing lifestyle behaviours and including patient feedback in service redesign.
Usability rating: 4
Distributed Knowledge Management in Health Care Administration
The distributed KM model widens the scope of KM by including partners in a broader network of knowledge exchange. A fairly technical article.
Usability rating: 3
