Incentives to follow Best Practice in Health Care

This briefing by the Office of Health Economics (UK) aims to review the evidence on the effectiveness of incentives to follow best practice health care, describe the incentives currently in place in the UK, and to determine if additional or modified incentives are required to promote adherence to best practice care. The scope is both primary and acute care, and both financial and non-financial incentives are examined.

Strong evidence exists for the provision of timely and meaningful information on safety and quality performance to clinical teams, particularly if this is benchmarked against the performance of peer teams or institutions.  

Incentives to Follow Best Practice in Health Care. Office of Health Economics; Briefing 55