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Patients are having surgery in the NHS even when its benefits don’t outweigh the risks and resources used to deliver it. Researchers have invested lots of energy into spotting and reducing care that doesn’t work or isn’t cost-effective.
During this research conversation Joel Glynn, a Senior Research Associate in Health Economics at the University of Bristol, will talk about a project exploring how the health service could reduce the provision of treatments that don’t work or aren’t cost-effective.
The aim of this project was to explore if resources, such as the surgeons’ time, are put to better use when these less effective types of surgery are reduced.