OECD Health Care Quality Reviews provide a toolkit to improve the quality of health care Over the past four years, the OECD has conducted a series of in-depth reviews of the policies and institutions that underpin the measurement and improvement of health care quality in 15 different health systems. Caring for Quality in Health: Lessons learnt from 15 reviews of health care quality seeks to answer the question of what caring for quality means for a modern health care system by identifying what policies and approaches work best in improving quality of care. Despite differences in health care system priorities, and in how quality-improvement tools are designed and applied, a number of common approaches and shared challenges emerged across the 15 OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality analysed. The most important of these concerns transparency. Governments should encourage, and where appropriate require, health systems and health care providers to be open about the effectiveness, safety and patient-centredness of care they provide. More measures of patient outcomes are also needed - especially those reported by patients themselves. These should underpin standards, guidelines, incentives and innovations in service delivery. Greater transparency can lead to optimisation of both quality and efficiency – twin objectives which reinforce, rather than subvert, each other. In practical terms, greater transparency and better performance can be supported by changes in where and how care is delivered; changes in the roles of patients and professionals; and employing tools such as data and incentives more effectively. Key actions in these three areas are set out in the 12 lessons presented in this synthesis report.
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WHY REVIEW HEALTH CARE QUALITY POLICIES?
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Health System Performance Assessment In Action The Health Division of the OECD and the DG REFORM of the European Commission are cooperating in providing technical support to countries to establish Health System Performance Assessment (HSPA) programs:
The Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic requested technical assistance from the European Commission and the OECD to support the reform process and enable the national authorities in the Czech Republic to implement an institutional framework for reporting health system performance indicators.
The Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia has requested technical assistance from the European Commission and the OECD to support the reform process for developing a national health system performance assessment framework. The ongoing project aims to enable national authorities in Estonia to have a clear health information system governance and an agreement on a systematised list of health system monitoring indicators and objectives.
The Health Division of the OECD is also supporting the Dubai Health Authority in developing and implementing a new HSPA framework.
The Dubai Health Authority of the United Arab Emirates has requested technical assistance from the OECD to assess the state of the health information infrastructure and support the creation and implementation of a Health System Performance Assessment framework. The ongoing project consists of four parts: 1) the development of an HSPA framework for Dubai, 2) Assessment of the health data infrastructure, 3) the selection of indicators, and 4) analysis and reporting of the first HSPA report. COUNTRY REPORTS AND LESSONS LEARNT The country reports, published in English or French, are available for download below and on the OECD iLibrary. |
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Australia - Released 15 November 2015 |
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Czech Republic - Released 25 June 2014 |
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Denmark - Released 30 April 2013 |
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Israel - Released 26 November 2012 |
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Italy - Released 15 January 2015
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Japan - Released 21 August 2015
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Korea - Released 21 March 2012 |
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Norway - Released 21 May 2014
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Portugal - Released 27 May 2015
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Sweden - Released 12 December 2013
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Turkey - Released 25 November 2014 |
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United Kingdom - Released 12 February 2016 |
For a description of the health system in these countries and many others, visit the European Observatory's Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series.
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