Issue

National priority

Score

1.Focus on demand and quality rather than price negotiation

Payment by Results

2.Achieving wider diversity of provision

Treatment Centre Programme, Choice, Payment by Results

3.Managing change in key relationships, particularly the patient and GP

Choice (at the point of referral)

4.Providing more information for patients and GPs

Choice (at the point of referral)

5.Managing relationships with autonomous providers of services – some TCs, private hospitals and Foundation Trusts

Plurality, Diversity and Choice

6.Maximising the benefits of changes to care pathways

Modernisation, Choice, Payment by Results and provider contestability

7.Grasping the opportunities for developments in primary care

Shifting the Balance, access targets

8.Acute clinician involvement

All strategies

9.Develop practice based budgets

Payment by Results

10.Achieve efficiencies in prescribing in primary care

National Tariffs

11.Overcoming the constraints – still a lack of good information, lack of management capacity and capability

All strategies

12.Manage changes to the regulatory framework to avoid them impeding innovation

All strategies

 Total