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Stages in a PBMA priority setting process |
| PBMA Stages |
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| 1) Determine the aim and scope of the priority setting exercise |
| 2) Compile a program budget (i.e. map of current activity and expenditure) |
| 3) Form marginal analysis advisory panel |
| 4) Determinie locally relevant decision making criteria |
| a. Decision maker input |
| b. Board of Director input |
| c. Public input |
| 5) Advisory panel to identify options in terms of: |
| a. areas for service growth |
| b. areas for resource release through producing same level of output (or outcomes) but with less resources |
| c. areas for resource release through scaling back or stopping some services |
| 6) Advisory panel to make recommendations in terms of: |
| a. funding growth areas with new resources |
| b. decisions to move resources from (5b) into (5a) |
| c. trade-off decisions to move resources from (5c) to (5a) if relative value in (5c) is deemed greater than that in (5a) |
| 7) Validity checks with additional stakeholders and final decisions to inform budget planning process |
Mitton and Donaldson Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2004 2:3 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-2-3 |