I am investigating performance-based contracts (outcomes-based/value-based contracts), with a particular focus on such agreements in the healthcare sector. From what I have researched, while value-based solutions are not new, there has not been a significant drive to implement them in Wales. In light of the above, I have the following questions:
Are performance-based contracts being utilized in the broadly defined healthcare sector in Wales?
If so, what specific cases of such contracts can be identified?
Will the number of such contracts increase, decrease, or remain the same in the future?
Have there been any legal proceedings or court rulings related to such contracts in the broadly defined healthcare sector in Wales?
If so, what specific cases of such legal proceedings or court rulings can be identified?
Do these contracts improve the quality of healthcare services in Wales?
Are such contracts positively evaluated by the medical community/hospitals/NHS?
Have these contracts been 'problematic', and if so, what issues have arisen?
Are these contracts available for analysis or are they confidential? If they are available, where can they be obtained?
Thank you for your recent request.
Public Health Wales do not hold this information.
Public Health Wales is the public health service for Wales and as such is an independent NHS Trust. Therefore, do not have access to this information. As an organisation we have no jurisdiction over the activities of Health Boards and other NHS Wales organisations. This means we do not routinely have access to the data they produce. I have provided contact details for NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) below, you would need to contact them individually for any information they may hold.
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Making a Freedom of Information Request - NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
I am very sorry we are unable to help on this occasion.
.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of the decision, you should write to the Corporate Complaints Manager, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, 3, Number 2, Capital Quarter, Tyndall Street, Cardiff, CF10 4BZ.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint or review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Trust. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner for Wales
2nd Floor
Churchill House
Churchill Way
Cardiff
CF10 2HH
Telephone: 029 2067 8400
Email: wales@ico.org.uk