On this page you will find links to useful tools and resources for anyone looking to make better use of data to improve outcomes and budget allocation in health and care. There are also some video guides from experts giving an introduction to allocative efficiency and quality.
What is allocative efficiency?
How-to guides
- Risk stratification and population segmentation
- Impactibility assessments to ensure interventions make a difference to your population
- Bow tie analysis
- Data Linkage
- Using Theographs
- Health economics: a guide for public health teams
The STAR approach to allocative efficiency
Prototype models
These models, created by the Health Economics Unit, are not to be used in a production environment, but they show how we structure our thinking round allocative efficiency and quality projects.
Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
STAR efficiency frontier builder
Connecting theory and reality with allocative efficiency
Public tools
Prioritisation framework – a flexible tool designed to help local authorities make evidence-based decisions on spending across public health programmes. The primary technique used in the framework is MCDA .
Downloadable demand and capacity models from NHS England
Greater Manchester Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) model – nationally leading in its approach to articulating the fiscal, economic and social value of interventions.
STAR – a toolkit for commissioners.
Sheffield Accelerated Value of Information – speedy analysis of models.
NHS-R – a community which has created and are developing R packages to support analytics in health and care.
Public Health England A to Z of data and analysis tools
Shape – online, interactive data mapping, analysis and insight tool
Data
Fingertips – a huge repository to explore public health data, including:
OpenPrescribing – a tool to explore prescribing data.
Dashboards
NHS acute trust catchment populations
Clinical Commissioning Group outcomes indicator set