Atlas of Variation in Healthcare

At the HCPCN development meeting in October 2010, Phil Da Silva highlighted the White Paper's commitment to providing better value from the resources available to healthcare. Here is a link to the Atlas of Variation produced by Right Care to help the NHS address variations in activity and spend. Such variations indicate the need to focus on appropriateness of care, and to investigate the possibilities that there is overuse of some interventions and that some lower value activities are undertaken. The Atlas presents a series 34 of maps of variation selected from topics which National Clinical Directors and others have identified as being of importance to their clinical specialty.

The link address is: http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk/atlas/