Transcript UK Health Accounts – BSBD Summit

Co-funded by the
European Union
Health Accounts
James Lewis
[email protected]
8th July 2016
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What are health accounts?
• Measure healthcare expenditure
• Analyse expenditure by:
• mode of financing (government, out-of-pocket, insurance …)
• provider organisation (hospital, residential home, ambulatory…)
• type of function (curative/rehabilitative, long-term, preventive,
administration…)
• Standardised definitions (SHA 2011) – OECD, Eurostat,
WHO
• Now produced by all EEA and nearly all OECD member
states, including the UK from May 2016
• UK Heath Accounts currently at a whole UK-level
• Include health-related social care
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Current healthcare expenditure as a %
of GDP, 2014
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
United
States
Japan
France Germany Canada
United
Kingdom
(new
SHA)
Italy
OECD
United
simple Kingdom
average
(old,
2013)
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Challenges
What are the challenges to getting these statistics used more widely?
• “Accounts” and awareness
• Inertia with definition of healthcare and terminology of analysis
categories
What have we done/will we do:
• Front-loading key information about statistics in publications to
ensure they are understood
• Briefing in DH and devolved administrations
• Blogs – BMJ and Health Foundation
• International comparisons
• Links to healthcare efficiency work
• Workshop with key stakeholders
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Questions to consider
• Beyond the proposed actions, what else can be done to raise
the profile of these statistics and ensure that relevant parties
can understand their potential uses?
• Beyond our existing relationships, how can we open channels
of communication with a wider group of users in order to help
us understand how these statistics can be developed to
serve their needs?
• How can the health accounts and productivity statistics be
used in conjunction to help provide an analysis of the
efficiency of the UK health system?
• Beyond the links with productivity, how can we establish and
help to exploit statistical cross-overs where health accounts
could be analysed in conjunction with other health statistics?
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