Do addiction services provide value for money?

Identifying existing health care services that do not provide value for money.

Health systems can be improved appreciably by making them more efficient and accountable, and enhancing the quality of care, without necessarily requiring additional resources. Australia, like other nations, cannot escape making difficult health care choices in the context of resource scarcity, and the challenge of delivering quality care, informed by best available evidence, to an ageing popul...

Assessing Sports Advisory Services: Do They Provide Value for Football Bettors?

Jerry Fox Karl J. Mayer This study examined the effectiveness of sports advisory services in football betting. Using three different cases with recent data, it compared the actual outcomes of the football games to sports advisory services' predictions in order to test their prediction accuracy for those games. The results showed none of the three data sets exceeded the threshold for profitable ...

Value for money: the nursing health services research - McMaster unit.

The Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU), funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care, consists of Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Linda O’Brien-Pallas at the Toronto site (see profile in CJNL Volume 21 Number 1) and Dr. Andrea Baumann at the McMaster site. The NHSRU has a multidisciplinary team of 46 co-investigators and more than 50 researchers representing nursing, bus...

Improved investment in mental health services: value for money?

BACKGROUND This paper examines what has been achieved in the specialist mental health services by the vastly increased health expenditures that the National Health Service (NHS) has enjoyed in the past 5 years. AIMS To describe the way money has been spent in specialist mental health services and examine why problems remain after such admirable changes to already available resources. METHOD...

Value For Money in public sector corporate services