3 November 2017

Testing the RightCare model

RightCare: wrong answers
Journal of Public Health, 03 November 2017 https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx136
  • The RightCare model of identifying opportunities for savings and quality improvements benchmarks CCGs against the "Best 5" of "Similar 10" CCGs. The author tests this model using public data on cancer mortality and concludes that the ‘Similar 10’ are inappropriate comparators and CCGs cannot expect to match the average performance of the RightCare ‘Best 5’.