From: Health care priority setting: principles, practice and challenges
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 |