Methods of disinvestment in health care?… · Soril LJJ, Niven DJ, Esmail R, Noseworthy TW, Clement FM. Untangling, Unbundling, and Moving Forward: Framing Health Technology Reassessment

Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment

Methods of disinvestment in health care?

J Bouttell, O Wu, K Boyd, R Heggie, M Aitken,

V Wells

22 May 2019

Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment 1

Eight methods


Specific guidelines on how to do disinvestment

or tools to assist:

▪Spain – GuNFT/Pritec (Mayer, 2015)

▪New Zealand – National Health Committee (Harris, SHARE 10, 2017)

▪Brazil - CONITEC

Identify Prioritise Decide Implement

1. HTA guideline


1. HTA guideline


Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory

Committee – Australian version of

NICE/SMC (Mayer, 2015)

Disinvestment? (Haas, 2012)

▪Withdrawal of unsafe medicines

▪Replacement by manufacturers

▪Drugs falling into misuse

▪More recently – generics and

biologic/biosimilar replacements

2. Medicine optimisation


3. Low-value lists


Fixed budget, marginal, facilitated, implemented?

Lots of examples:

▪respiratory health interventions – Wales (Charles et al, 2016)

▪child health policy on Tayside (Donaldson and Ruta, 1996)

Rational disinvestment (Donaldson, 2010)

Link with optimisation work (Earnshaw, 2002)

4. Programme budgeting

marginal analysis (PBMA)


5. Guideline review

Example – CG34 Hypertension – savings from less

cardiovascular events if more drugs prescribed-£447,000

saved per £100,000 spent


6. Service redesign

‘centralisation’ ‘use of non-

clinical staff to deliver some

services…non-contentious

initiatives’ (Roosehenas et al, 2015)


Atlas of Health Variation

7. Benchmarking and

clinical audit


8. Commissioning


Barriers to

disinvestment

Method Barriers

HTA guideline Sustainability/Loss aversion

Medicine optimisation Loss aversion

Low-value lists Implementation

PBMA Sustainability/Implementation

Guideline review Implementation

Service redesign Evidence/stakeholders

Benchmarking/clinical audit Resource/implementation

Commissioning Loss aversion/evidence


DISINVESTMENT





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