Care has limited resources - how should they be fairly distributed?

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The National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care is a Swedish centre of knowledge on setting priorities in health and social care. We conduct and support research on priority setting within health care and functions as skill support to state agencies, country councils, municipalities, and clincial management in the health service.

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Varför gör man prioriteringar i vården

Background - Why priority setting in health care?

In Sweden there are general guidelines on priority setting which were ratified by the Swedish Parliament in 1997.

The ethical platform for priority setting

In Sweden three ethical principles guide priority setting in the health service and they have been included in the Health and Medical Services Act.

National model for open priority setting within health care

A tool for translating the government guidelines on priority setting in healthcare and the ethical platform to real-world priority setting.

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Events and education
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The Priority Setting Conference

Every second year the National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care arranges a national conference on priority setting in health care.

Guidance in implementing priority setting processes

We provide guidance and education for regions/country councils, municipalities, and organisations involved in, or planning to initiate, priority setting processes.
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Priorities 2018 - International Conference on Priorities in Health 2018

The International Society on Priorities in Health (ISPH) had its 12th biannual international conference together with Linköping University.

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Adress

Linköping University National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care Division of Health Care Analysis Department of Medical and Health Sciences 581 83 Linköping Sweden

Visiting adress

National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care Building 511, entrance 76 or 78, floor 13 Campus US Linköping

E-mail

prioriteringscentrum@liu.se

Reports and peer-reviewed articles
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