Using clinical practice variations as a method for commissioners and clinicians to identify and prioritise opportunities for disinvestment in health care: a cross-sectional study, systematic reviews and qualitative study

• Main Authors: William Hollingworth (Author), Leila Rooshenas (Author), John Busby (Author), Christine E Hine (Author), Padmanabhan Badrinath (Author), Penny F Whiting (Author), Theresa HM Moore (Author), Amanda Owen-Smith (Author), Jonathan AC Sterne (Author), Hayley E Jones (Author), Claire Beynon (Author), Jenny L Donovan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: National Institute for Health Research, 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: NHS expenditure has stagnated since the economic crisis of 2007, resulting in financial pressures. One response is for policy-makers to regulate use of existing health-care technologies and disinvest from inefficiently used health technologies. A key challenge to disinvestment is to iden...