PbR

Archive
13 March 2013

Ashford gets ready for maternity PbR

Ashford and St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust has turned to digital pen technology to capture the information it needs for
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22 November 2012

Monitor to base tariff on PLICS

Monitor wants to shift the basis on which Payment by Results prices are calculated away from average costs and towards
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30 August 2012

Auditors urge CCGs to improve PbR data

Clinical commissioning groups should improve the quality of data used for payments to NHS hospitals by making regular audits and
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25 July 2012

Poor data stops mental health tariff

The government has delayed plans to implement a national Payment by Results tariff for adult mental health services.
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23 July 2012

HSCIC renews concerns about data quality

A new report published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveals significant error rates in Payment by Results
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23 April 2012

Audit Commission wants new datasets

The Audit Commission has criticised existing NHS datasets for failing to reflect what is happening to patients.
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23 February 2011

CACI wins Luton and Dunstable BI deal

Luton and Dunstable Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a deal with CACI for a data warehouse, business intelligence and
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2 September 2008

One in ten hospital episodes miscoded

Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission. The
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15 February 2008

PbR held back by NHS data failures

A new report into the progress of Payment by Results (PbR) has concluded that problems with the quality and timeliness of
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3 March 2006

‘Upcoding’ a hazard as PbR pressure grows

Clinical coders are coming under pressure to ‘upcode’ to maximise income under Payment by Results, a conference heard last week.
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