NHS England isn’t even pretending it will pilot the ‘new models of care’

NHS England isn’t even pretending it will pilot the ‘new models of care’ It’s good to know if a policy works before it is rolled out, yet NHS England doesn’t see the need to try out new projects as part of its Five Year Forward View.

Let’s run this one up the flagpole and see who salutes. The business world has its own approaches to trying out new ideas, and its own distinctive idioms for doing so. Public services pride themselves on more considered, scientific ways of establishing what works when it comes to spending the taxpayer pound.

But as the most ambitious benefit reform of the modern era gets the go-ahead after only limited piloting, it’s worth asking if such pride is really justified.

How will these models be assessed and what route will there be from vanguard to preferred option – or failed concept?

NHS England is avoiding the term 'pilot' for its new models of care, preferring 'early adopters' and 'first cohort' Continue reading... The Guardian