NHS: Cost-effectiveness Debate

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Monday 12th September 2011

(12 years, 8 months ago)

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I commend to the noble Baroness the impact assessment that we published on the Bill. It shows clearly that, over the next 10 years, the savings that we will bring about will dwarf the cost of making the changes that we propose.

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Does the Minister agree that improving the quality of healthcare will lead to higher costs?

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No, I do not. There are plenty of examples of quality costing less because the system gets it right first time. We see this time and again, for example in the Quit programme. The simplest example is that if we can treat patients correctly in hospital and keep them in for the shortest amount of time, we save a great deal of money.

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