Help us put patients at the heart of the future NHS payment system

Designing the future NHS payment system

Monitor and NHS England, working in partnership, need your help to ensure that the future NHS payment system delivers affordable, quality care and better outcomes for patients.

Over the last year we have worked together with a wide range of stakeholders to assess and identify the strengths and limitations of the current payment system and establish a case for change that will do more for patients. You can read about this work in our Evaluation of the reimbursement system for NHS-funded care.

We now need your help to develop a new system that is focused on providing better quality services for patients at a cost that is sustainable.

Starting an open discussion with you about the NHS payment system

Our discussion paper, How can the NHS payment system do more for patients?, sets out possible approaches to designing a comprehensive payment system for NHS services for the long term and invites your feedback.

We are particularly interested in hearing your views about these questions:

  • How can we support innovation in patterns of care and positively influence provider and commissioner behaviour?
  • How can we design a payment system that includes different payment approaches for the different types of patient needs and care?
  • How can we strengthen the foundations of the current payment system in the meantime?

Listen to an explanation of the discussion paper

How you can get involved

Please respond to our discussion paper, How can the NHS payment system do more for patients?, by sending us your answers to the questions in the document, and any other comments you have, by 5pm on Friday 19 July 2013. Details on how to respond can be found below. You can also let us know your views at one of the forthcoming sector engagement events, which will be announced soon.

Online: You can find a response form here. This is our preferred way of receiving your comments.

By email: You can email your response to paymentsystem@monitor.gov.uk

By post: You can send your response to Payment system discussion paper, Monitor, 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9NP

Your views will help us to place the interests of patients at the heart of this important piece of work, and provide better quality services for patients at a cost that is sustainable.

What next?

  • We will use your feedback, received in writing or through our face to face dialogue, to inform our long-term strategy, which we will be working on through the year.
  • We will publish the first National Tariff Document for NHS funded services later this year. This will set out the currencies, pricing rules, price-setting methodologies and prices for 2014/15. We plan to informally engage with current providers and commissioners in June before a formal consultation.

 

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