Elective surgery – low value?

Elective surgery – low value?:

The aim of this report has been to make recommendations for consideration by the NHS Operations Board with regard to effective commissioning of elective surgical procedures. The work was commissioned by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, following widespread expressions of concern from professional bodies that approaches based on lists of procedures deemed to be of “limited effectiveness”, “low value” or requiring a “threshold” result in inequitable patterns of service delivery. The evidence base for such approaches is not thought to be sufficiently robust, and in many cases procedures with well-established evidence of effectiveness, such as cataracts or arthroplasty, have been included. NHS Networks