In health care priority setting, information is important but able institutions are indispensable

What is it about?

This study suggests that regional health authorities in spite of being politically governed organisations have the potential to execute a formal priority-setting process. Evidence from three of the sites shows that most decisions on disinvestments were possible to implement, although the initial targets were not always fully achieved. The accomplishment was in many ways unique to Sweden – it increased the dialogue between political and professional leaders on the necessity of restrictions.

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