PHS FOI 2024-001898
- Date of request
- 09 July 2024
- Date of response
- 30 July 2024
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2024-001898
- Corporate information
Request
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 Scotland. In light of the above, I have the following questions:
1. Are performance-based contracts being utilized in the broadly defined healthcare sector in Scotland?
2. If so, what specific cases of such contracts can be identified?
3. Will the number of such contracts increase, decrease, or remain the same in the future?
4. Have there been any legal proceedings or court rulings related to such contracts in the broadly defined healthcare sector in Scotland?
5. If so, what specific cases of such legal proceedings or court rulings can be identified?
6. Do these contracts improve the quality of healthcare services in Scotland?
7. Are such contracts positively evaluated by the medical community/hospitals/NHS?
8. Have these contracts been 'problematic', and if so, what issues have arisen?
9. Are these contracts available for analysis or are they confidential? If they are available, where can they be obtained?