Last week I was in San Diego speaking at The Johns Hopkins University 2016 ACG® System International Conference. The conference attracted delegates from all over the world, including the US, Sweden, Italy, South Africa and the UK. In all cases, delegates and speakers were exercised with the challenge of delivering the ‘Triple Aim’: better health outcomes, better patient experience, reduced cost. Here’s what I learned. Read More…
For any individual or organisation that believes in a comprehensive tax funded NHS, free at the point of delivery, based on clinical need and not the ability to pay… inequity in healthcare is a dragon to be slain. Read More…
An increasing number of healthcare commissioners – and a growing number of providers – are beginning to recognise the value and benefits that population health management strategies can bring when trying to understand, and indeed optimise, health system performance. At Sollis, we and our academic partners are firmly of a view that only when you apply case–mix adjusted methodologies to a population based analysis, do you truly provide insights into health system performance. Read More…
We are keen to promote a report from The Nuffield Trust and National Association for Primary Care (NAPC), entitled ‘Reclaiming a Population Health Perspective (Future Challenges for Primary Care)’ because we believe it to be vitally important.
The foreword to the report starts by name checking “the late, great Barbara Starfield”. Through our long association with Johns Hopkins University, we at Sollis are very familiar with the work of Dr Starfield. Before passing away in June 2011, Barbara was the Professor of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Read More…