Tools and resources for allocative efficiency and quality

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

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

Adult Social Care analytical hub

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