Posts Tagged public reported outcomes
A glimmer of light from Sir Bruce
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 29/05/2008
Perhaps one of the biggest misnomers in the NHS at present is payment by results, quite simply because it isn’t payment by results at all. It’s payment by caseload.
For an operation from the same health resource group, whether you bungle it and leave the patient ridden with MRSA and disabled for life or whether you’ve done a world-class job that Lord Darzi himself would be proud of, you’ll get paid the same.
