3/3 Quality of Health Care Spotlight Series
Tuesday 22 March 2022, 15:00-16:00 CET
How can using financial incentives improve quality of care?
Paying for Quality (P4Q) schemes have become increasingly widespread in Europe since the 1990s. They aim to provide direct financial incentives to health providers based on the measured quality of care.
As financial incentives are a powerful tool to change the behaviour of providers, P4Q could potentially have an important effect on assuring improvements in quality of care. P4Q schemes can reward desired outcomes, processes and structures, or penalize poor performance.
But are financial incentives to improve the quality of care effective? What are the challenges and opportunities in implementing P4Q schemes? Join us to find out!
Keynote:
Wilm Quentin, Technical University Berlin/ European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Speakers:
Robert A Berenson, Urban Institute, USA
Kaija Kasekamp, WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing & University of Tartu, Estonia
João Breda, WHO European Centre of Excellence for Quality in Care and Patient Safety, Athens, Greece
Moderators:
Dimitra Panteli & Erica Richardson, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
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This is one of the three webinars of the Quality of Health Care spotlight series. This spotlight series consists of three webinars covering different quality strategies:
- health technology assessment (HTA);
- developing and implementing
clinical guidelines; and
- using financial incentives in paying for quality (P4Q).
We investigate key policy questions associated with quality of care, bringing together evidence from research and country experiences. We review the
potential challenges and opportunities of these quality strategies and consider how they are influenced by their unique settings.
We also explore the role of cross-country collaboration in HTA systems, the impact of COVID-19 on the development
of clinical guidelines, and the effectiveness of P4Q programmes in health systems across Europe.
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