A national Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) of health improvement spending across Wales: disinvestment and reinvestment across the life course

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Joanna M Charles¹  Rhiannon Tudor Edwards²  David Cohen³  Sam Groves³  Ciaran Humphreys⁴  Peter Bradley⁵  Helen Howson⁶  Sara Thomas⁶  Julie Bishop⁶ 

[1] Centre for Health Economics & Medicines Evaluation, Ardudwy, Normal Site, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK;Centre for Health Economics & Medicines Evaluation, Ardudwy, Normal Site, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK;the Public Health Wales Health Improvement PBMA team, UK;Health Economics and Policy Research Unit, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK;Public Health Wales Observatory, Building 1, St. David’s Park, Job’s Well Road, Carmarthen, UK;Public Health Wales, 14 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, UK;Public Health Wales, Hadyn Ellis Building, Maindy Road, Cardiff, UK;

关键词: Programme budgeting;    Marginal analysis;    Disinvestment;    Investment;    Public health;    Health economics;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-14-837

 received in 2014-04-02, accepted in 2014-07-29,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundWales faces serious public health challenges, with relatively low life expectancies and wide inequalities in life expectancy with associated pressures on the National Health Service (NHS) at a time of financial recession. This has led to growing recognition of the need to better understand the range of health improvement and prevention programmes across Welsh Government, NHS, local government and voluntary sector agencies.MethodsThe Minister for Health and Social Care commissioned Public Health Wales, the single national public health organisation, to establish a Health Improvement Advisory Group, to oversee a Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) expert panel. The panel drew on evidence from a range of sources to explore potential alternative modes of health improvement initiative delivery across Wales. Electronic voting was used to agree an appropriate time horizon for health improvement programme outcomes, main objective of the health improvement review and criteria for evaluating candidate services for disinvestment and investment. The panel also used electronic voting to state whether they wished to disinvest or invest in a candidate service.ResultsThe review identified a budget of £15.1 million, spanning 10 Welsh Government priority areas, and 6 life course stages. Due to lack of evidence the panel recommended total disinvestment in 7 out of 25 initiatives releasing £1.5 million of resources, and partial disinvestment in a further 3 interventions releasing £7.3 million of resources. The panel did not recommend increasing investment in any of the 25 initiatives under review. Marginal analyses prioritised child health, mental health and wellbeing and tobacco control as key areas for investment.ConclusionsWales is championing a concept of “prudent healthcare”. The PBMA exercise undertaken here was a transparent evidence-based tool to reach decisions about potential for disinvestment and reinvestment in health improvement strategies. It also demonstrates the potential wider application at a national level across government public health functions, to ensure resources are most cost-effectively deployed, with due consideration for equity.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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