Payment by Results framework put at top of UK NHS agenda in 2006
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
A framework for the future of the UK's payment by results (PbR) is to be drawn up in 2006 as a matter of priority, as part of the ongoing programme of NHS reform. So said UK health minister Patricia Hewitt yesterday in London, in a speech on "Creating a patient-led NHS: the next steps forward".