NHS hospital funding in England to be tied to patient ratings, ministers say | Health policy
Money for hospitals in England must be linked to patient assessments, have announced the ministers, as one of the health patterns responsible for implementing the government’s plan over 10 years for the NHS in the country warned that it was facing an existential threat unless it reconnects to the public.
The measure, under which health care providers could lose a proportion of their funding if patients are dissatisfied, is part of a package that the Health Secretary hopes to encourage investments in services that could prevent the need for hospital visits – and more encourage patients.
But the clinicians expressed their concern the risks of proposal carrying out surgery on the NHS with a blunt instrument, rather than the required scalpel.
Under the proposals, which have been reported for the first time by the Times, patients must be requested if they want complete funding for their continuing care to be paid to the service they have used, or if a proportion should go to a regional fund instead. According to Times, around 10% of “standard payment rate” could be diverted if a patient is unhappy.
“This will be introduced where there have been a history of very mediocre service and evidence that patients are not listened to,” the Ministry of Health and Social Coins said on Saturday, adding that it would initially be managed as Essia.
But Matthew Taylor, the director general of the NHS Confederation, said: “None of our members raised this idea with us as a means of improving care and, to our knowledge, no other health system currently adopts this model.”
He said: “Patient experience is determined by much more than their individual interaction with the clinician and therefore, unless it is very carefully designed and evaluated, there is a risk that suppliers can be penalized for more systemic problems.”
Other measures are designed to help treat community people – before needing hospitalization. The Secretary of Health, Wes Street, said: “If patients cannot get a GP meeting, which costs the NHS about £ 40, they find themselves in A&E, which costs up to £ 400.”
He came then that the new NHS chief in England said that the service had “built mechanisms to keep the public away”. Sir Jim Mackey told Telegraph: “We made things really difficult, and we were probably all at the end.
MacKey warned that disconnection between NHS services and the public could lead to the loss of public health service. “The great concern is: if we do not grasp this, and we do not treat it with the pace, we will lose the population. If we lose the population, we have lost the NHS.”
Streetting said on Wednesday that the government’s plan over 10 years would also aim to “treat one of the strongest health inequalities”, which, according to him, was uneven access to information and health care.
MacKey said: “We have to somehow redirect it; think about it how to find people who need us, how do we stop thinking:” It will be pain in the ass if you present yourself because I am quite busy “, and think about the way we discover what you need and do it.”
