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Table 2 Summary of results

From: Opportunity costs and local health service spending decisions: a qualitative study from Wales

 

Local Health Board

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Institutional frameworks for prioritisation

Framework for prioritising interventions

Interventions Not Normally Undertaken

a

a

a

Responding to NICE TAs

Horizon scanning

NICE contingency fund

Efficiency savings

Displacements linked to individual NICE TAs

Other examples of displacement by LHB

Phasing in of NICE guidance

Savings first sought in same clinical programme

Savings first sought in medicines budget

Extra funds sought/received from Welsh Govt.

Responding to other financial shocks

Contingency fund for other shocks

Extra funds requested/received from govt.

  1. aNot referred to in interviews but found online by authors
  2. Topic was mentioned by either one or two interviewees from that LHB
  3. Topic was not referred to specifically
  4. ✘Interviewee confirmed that the practice did not occur in their LHB
  5. LHBs are labelled 1–7 and in a random order to protect anonymity