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Pay 'em or flay 'em? Motivating the medical profession

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 12.00PM to 1.00pm

Speaker(s): Professor Tim Doran, Department of Health Sciences

Financial and reputational incentives are increasingly common components in strategies to performance manage the medical profession. The use of incentives to date has focused on process measures and a narrow range of outcomes, a pragmatic approach that has produced some substantial short-term quality gains. However, improvement of specific technical aspects of quality may have been achieved at the expense of trust, cooperation and benevolence. This seminar reports on the UK’s decade-long experiment with incentives in primary care, and considers whether it has produced a cohort of saints or maniacs.

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Location: ARRC Auditorium

Admission: Free - open to staff and students